“Essendo alla ricerca di un futuro per me stessa, mi piace sapere le possibilità degli altri.”

“—Si alguna mujé blanca lee algún día mi historia, sólo quiero que recuerde esto: que dar las grasias de corazón cuando piensas en to lo que alguien ha hecho por ti —mueve la cabeza y mira la mesa llena de arañazos—, es algo mu bonito.”

“she clear her throat again and I'm wondering why she telling me all this. I'm the maid, she ain't gone win no friends talking to me.”

“...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.”

“It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”

“She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.”

“…He kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body - my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.”