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Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Sandra Cisneros

Birthname

Birthday: December 20, 1954

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Short Story Writer, Novelist, Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 3

“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt.”

— Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

Tagged: Youth, rebel, newness, Lust

“Make love to me in Spanish.
Not with that other tongue.
I want you juntito a mi,
tender like the language
crooned to babies.
I want to be that
lullabied, mi bien
querido, that loved.”

— Sandra Cisneros, Dulzura, From "Loose Woman"

Tagged: Poetry, Poems, Poets, Love, Passion, Surrender

“But my mother's hair, my mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe, is the warm smell of bread before you bake it, is the smell when she makes room for you on her side of the bed still warm with her skin, and you sleep near her, the rain outside falling and Papa snoring.”

— Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

Tagged: hair, Motherhood, Family, Youth, Safety

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