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“Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky.”
― Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

“It's not books you need, it's some of the things that were once in books. The same things could be in the "parlour families" today.
The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not. No, no, it's not books at all you're looking for!
Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when I say this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver”
― Cisneros Sandra

“I have decided not to grow up tamed like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain.”
-The House on Mango Street”
― Cisneros, Sandra