Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

Margarita Engle

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny rhymes by Emily Dickinson.”

“Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, pointy pink glasses, and no courage for flirting. It's doesn't take long to learn that I'm ridiculous.”

“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.”

“The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.”

“It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster.”

“Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?”

“Right wing or left wing, tyrants always try to control communication. They always fail.”

“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention in class, discovering that I love library research for history term papers about ancient lands. It feels like a form of time travel.”

“Do I have to admit that I'm half Cuban and half American, or should I go even further, and explain that Dad's parents were born in the Ukraine, part of Soviet Russia? Or am I just entirely American, all the fractions left behind by immigration from faraway nations?”

“At the stea my train station in New Orleans, h orrifying signs above drinking fountains announce: COLORED. WHITE. Confused, I drink out of both. Why should it matter if a stream of coo, refreshing water pours into my mouth or another?”

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