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41 " The encapotado had given Ramón a stick with a sausage and I saw little Ramón’s face as the sausage cooked in the bonfire. The sweet smell filled my nose, and I understood his weakness, but later I told him not to do that again. My little boy spit into the ground and he told me my pride didn’t feed his stomach, that it was my fault his three younger brothers were skin and bones, that I could starve if I wanted, but he was in line to be the man of the house, and the power wasn’t mine anymore. "
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras , Fruit of the Drunken Tree
42 " Something happens when you’re scared. Your mind goes off and your body doesn’t follow. It happened just this way to me. Suddenly I was not sitting there, powerless, in our hut. "
43 " Through the night I dreamed of my hair in a ponytail dragging long behind me, a levitating knife coming down on it—the rope of my hair in dismembered sections marking the places I’d run. "
44 " Trust is water in a glass; if you spill it, it's gone forever. "