“The tears started coming again, and I asked Mama to hang on just a minute” this quite reminds me of my mom, she always lend a shoulder for me cry on every time ❤️ #BTtopic#chpt17
“When tears did come to me it was a relief. That it was only tears. ‘Estevan, I know it doesn’t do any good to say things like this, but I don’t want to lose you. I’ve never lost anybody I loved, and I don’t think I know how to’”. #chpt17
“It had crossed my mind that Turtle might actually have recognized the cemetery her mother was buried in, and if so, I wondered whether I ought to take her back there to see it” #chpt17
“When they came out that morning dressed as refugees I had wanted to cry out, No! I was wrong. Don’t sacrifice your pride for me. But this is how badly they wanted to make it work” #chpt16
“He handed her carefully back to Esperanza, who folded her arms around Turtkeband held her against her chest, rocking back and forth for a very long time with her eyes squeezed shut”. #chpt16
“‘We love her. Maybe someday we will have more children, but not now. Now is so hard. We move around so much, we have nothing, no home.’ Esperanza was sobbing. This was no act”. When Esperanza said this, it was meant for Ismene #BTCharacter#chpt16
Estevan and Esperanza are Indians😱 this whole time I thought they were Mexicans but they chose a Spanish name to hide their identity #BTplottwist#chpt15
“At one point a police car came up behind us and we all got quiet and kept an eye out, as we grown accustomed to doing, but when he passed us we just had to laugh. The cop was Indian”. #BTquote#chpt15