Patricia Engel Quotes

#1. Asks me what I do for a living, and I think, I'm only twenty-two. I don't do anything for a living except smoke cigarettes and throw my heart around.

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#2. We can't be both human and divine. To be human is to be imperfect." When

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#3. This is Florida, where they're cool about putting people to death

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#4. Again, I think of Carlito. The years I tried to serve his sentence with him, and how he let me. Maybe it was wrong of me, but sometimes I hoped that he'd see in my eyes how I'd stopped living for anything and anyone but him, and that he would tell me not to come back.

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#5. We didn't yet know about undertows and rip currents, the many ways the ocean can turn on you.

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#6. So, what's the secret of life?
You don't know? It's so simple.
I shake my head.
Love.

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#7. ...the only thing people resent more than poor immigrants are wealthy ones

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#8. There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.

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#9. ...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.

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#10. There's not one living thing on this planet that doesn't scream to survive." I

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#11. I'd only marry for love."
"Easy to say when you're not illegal.

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#12. You don't 'find' love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.

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#13. It's a sea of death," Universo said. "But the water remembers what civilization tries to forget.

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#14. The only way to get what we want from life is to ask for it." I

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