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Book: Pierced by the Sun
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  1. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    She felt love: real Love. The kind of love that makes no distinction, that doesn't separate, that is not contained within a body. She cried from so much love."
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  2. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.
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  3. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything.
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  4. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    Look ma'am, those narcos that mutilate, torture, and kill others are no longer a part of us. They're no longer part of any family or community; they act against everyone. They are worth nothing. But when you bury a narco, you allow him to be a part of you again. He becomes dust, food, our brother once more. His body-dissolved in the earth-now sustains life again, instead of destroying it.
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  5. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    Lupita thought that people who didn't dance were selfish and lonely.
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  6. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    Nothing had spared her from being mocked for wetting her pants, not even the fact that she had rushed to the delegado's aid.
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  7. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
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  8. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    She was passionate about knitting because it allowed her to reach a state of peacefulness, and she loved to embroider because it let her express her creativity. Both activities were liberating. They allowed her to exist outside of time.
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  9. Laura Esquivel _ Pierced by the Sun

    One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others?
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