American Chica Quotes

“Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.”
― Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

“So what is the moral of this story? The answer out of Cajamarca is: Do what you can. You can’t change skin, can’t fix tongues, can’t brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking”
― Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

“You can’t change skin, can’t fix tongues, can’t brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking”
― Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

“By 1902, when Abuelito, my grandfather, was twenty years old and moving the tassel from one side of his graduation cap to the other at the University of Notre Dame, Julio César had thousands of rain-forest Indians making him rich. They were the Huitoto, the Bora, the Andoke, the Ocaina: from fierce headhunters to doe-eyed forest folk.”
― Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

“offered him a scholarship to the graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, all expenses paid by the U.S. Department of State. The war in Europe was devouring gringos; American schools had been drained of young men.”
― Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood