“If you want to dream, dream BIG!”
“What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.”
“For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.”
“In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.”
“They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.”
“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.”