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" In the campo, it’s his. His land, his house, his family. If he is in a generous mood, he might say it’s theirs. But nothing is really hers. Even their casita is marked, with Mami’s flowery ruffle curtains, with the perfume of another girl. Only this small room in Cuenca, where she has deliberately selected solid blue sheets and a dark green bedspread, can she call her own, and on the wall above the bed she has started "
― Mira T. Lee , Everything Here Is Beautiful
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" She believes this is true. If she’s gone, Manny will find someone else. A younger woman, perhaps, who will love him truly, and he deserves this kind of love, just as she does, and it will be easier if she is gone. Essy is young, she will forget quickly. Better now than later, like Nipa said. So she will tell him one night after their daughter is in bed and he is sitting in the kitchen, relaxed, shelling peanuts and watching "
― Mira T. Lee , Everything Here Is Beautiful
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" Meds didn’t necessarily revert a person to normalcy, though they might mute the symptoms. Some patients grew attached to their delusions, some ditched the meds as soon as they felt better, and the nasty side effects were for real. Blunted emotions, drowsiness, nausea, tremors, decreased sex drive, high cholesterol and diabetes, and weight "
― Mira T. Lee , Everything Here Is Beautiful