Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

#1. You ask what I want from you?" His eyes move to my lips, then my eyes. "I want you, Tru. I just want you. All day, every day.

Samantha Towle

#2. Interviewing is not a democratic art.

Andrew O'Hagan

#3. I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

Esmeralda Santiago

#4. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Eckhart Tolle

#5. The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#6. The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.

Esmeralda Santiago

#7. For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

Esmeralda Santiago

#8. I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

Austin Peck

#9. I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

Esmeralda Santiago

#10. It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.

Esmeralda Santiago

#11. They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

Esmeralda Santiago

#12. The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

Harriet Morgan

#13. I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

Esmeralda Santiago

#14. If you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

Esmeralda Santiago

#15. There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.

Esmeralda Santiago

#16. People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

Esmeralda Santiago

#17. How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

Esmeralda Santiago

#18. What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

Esmeralda Santiago

#19. We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

Esmeralda Santiago

#20. In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

Esmeralda Santiago

#21. We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Alan Watts

#22. You 'accidentally' touched his bottom? Didn't that happen when you last saw him as
well? Surprising how often that seems to be a problem.

Twisted Hilarity

#23. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#24. That guy," Lindsey said, "is a douche. Asterisk, I hate him. Footnote, he can suck it.

Chloe Neill

#25. Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#26. Today, however, we know that writing, at least science writing, is partly a skill. And skills can be improved. The pain can be reduced.

Michael L. Rosenzweig

#27. We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.

Esmeralda Santiago

#28. Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

Sherman Alexie

#29. Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

Esmeralda Santiago