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"Hija, if you ever come home late again you'll have to leave this house, and Beli saying, Don't worry, I'll be leaving soon enough" (Diaz 116).

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"Hija, if you ever come home late again you'll have to leave this house, and Beli saying, Don't worry, I'll be leaving soon enough" (Diaz 116).

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"But where she wanted to escape to she could not tell you" (80)

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But where she

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In her favorite Maria Montez daydream, a dashing European of the Jean Pierre Aumont variety...would catch sight of her in the bakery and fall madly love with her and sweep her off to his chateau in France. pg 87

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In her favorite Maria Montez daydream, a dashing European of the Jean Pierre Aumont variety...would catch sight of her in the bakery and fall madly love with her and sweep her off to his chateau in France. pg 87

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"when Bon Jovi’s “Runaway” came out I imagined it was me they were singing about."

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"when Bon Jovi’s “Runaway” came out I imagined it was me they were singing about."

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(pg. 19 [Google Books version])

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"It was like the stupidest thing I ever did. I was miserable. And so bored. But of course I wouldn't admit it. I had run away, so I was happy! Happy!"

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"It was like the stupidest thing I ever did. I was miserable. And so bored. But of course I wouldn't admit it. I had run away, so I was happy! Happy!"

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"Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me" (Diaz 56).

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"Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me" (Diaz 56).

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"there weren't any Houdini holes in that Patano Curtain" (Diaz 80)

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"there weren't any Houdini holes in that Patano Curtain" (Diaz 80)

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Platano Curtain refers to Iron Curtain in Europe, and inescapability

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But where she wanted to escape to she could not tell you. (P80)

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But where she wanted to escape to she could not tell you. (P80)

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What exactly it was she wanted was never clear either; pg 79

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What exactly it was she wanted was never clear either; pg 79

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"Beli, who’d been waiting for something exactly like her body her whole life, was sent over the moon by what she now knew. By the undeniable concreteness of her desirability which was, in its own way, Power."

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"Beli, who’d been waiting for something exactly like her body her whole life, was sent over the moon by what she now knew. By the undeniable concreteness of her desirability which was, in its own way, Power."

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Her body became a ticket to escape her miserable life. pg. 93

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"all my favorite books were about runaways..." (57). 

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"all my favorite books were about runaways..." (57). 

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“[Belicia], like her yet to be born daughter, would come to exhibit a particularly Jersey malaise—the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.”

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“[Belicia], like her yet to be born daughter, would come to exhibit a particularly Jersey malaise—the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.”

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pg.77

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If I had to put it to words I'd say what she wanted, more than anything, was what she's always wanted throughout her Lost Childhood: to escape. (P80)

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If I had to put it to words I'd say what she wanted, more than anything, was what she's always wanted throughout her Lost Childhood: to escape. (P80)

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"I guess my mother thought it would be harder for me to run away from an Island..." (70)

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"I guess my mother thought it would be harder for me to run away from an Island..." (70)

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“She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her” (Diaz 56). 

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“She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her” (Diaz 56). 

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possible relation to what she is escaping from