quotes by Esmeralda Santiago

"The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. "
— Esmeralda Santiago (The Turkish Lover)

"It' her life, and she' in the middle of it."
— Esmeralda Santiago (America's Dream)

"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 (When I Was Puerto Rican)

"In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times."
— Esmeralda Santiago (Almost a Woman)