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“We’re immigrants,” she said. “Our lives are never fair.”
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“Ah, English is more important anyway,” he said, batting away her concern. My mother sighed. “That’s the thing about moving kids from one country to another. They’re not good at either language.”
This thinking makes me so sad.
“It means a mistake isn’t always a mistake,” he said. “Sometimes a mistake is actually an opportunity, but we just can’t see it right then and there. Do you know what I mean?”
“You know what you are in English? You’re a bicycle, and the other kids are cars.”
worked on the letter all night long, making sure the tone, punctuation, and syntax was all right.
could write a book on what it’s like to have no money. You know what else I know? That’s no excuse to treat other people like dirt!”
