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Christina Garcia
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“A fish swims in my lung. Without you, / what is there to celebrate?”
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“Imagination, like memory, can transform lies to truths ...”
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“But Celia soon grew to love Havana, its crooked streets and the balconies like elegant chariots in the air.”
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“Memory is a skilled seducer.”
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“Why is it that most people aspire to little more than comfort?”
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“The familiar is insistent and deadly.”
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“There is a moment of each dawn that appears disguised as dusk, Lourdes decides, and for that brief moment the day neither begins nor ends.”
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“Women who outlive their daughters are orphans, Abuela tells me. Only their granddaughters can save them, guard their knowledge like the first fire.”
Christina Garcia, Cuban-born U.S. writer, journalist
(1958)