https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running Quotes Activity en-us 2017-02-21 16:46:10 UTC 2025-09-27 06:18:05 UTC hello@padlet.com briannahelena12 https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/155217937

“There’s some things to fight for, some things to die for - but not this. Chava, you’re alive.  I feel for you, man, but you’re alive. Don’t waste the rest of your days with this hate. What’s revenge? What can you get by getting to me? I’m the least of your enemies. It’s time to let it go, it’s time to go on with your life.” (p.245)

]]> 2017-02-21 16:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/155217937 briannahelena12 https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/155220624 “It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes on Gaarvey Boulevard who took our money, all smudged into one. Sometimes they were teachers who jumped on us Mexicans as if we were born with a hiduous stain. we were always afraid. Always Running.” (p.36)]]> 2017-02-21 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/155220624 dcasas2512 https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/155656463 "You can't be in a fire and not get burned." This was my fathers response when he heard about the trouble I was getting into at school (p.47)]]> 2017-02-23 04:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/155656463 hvg448 https://padlet.com/briannahelena12/always_running/wish/156607805 “I don’t mind paying for my mistakes,” I added. “But it seems like we’re paying for everyone else’s mistakes too. Sometimes we pay even when there’s been no mistake. Just for being who we are, you know what I mean? Just for being Mexican. That’s all the wrong I have to do.” (p. 144)

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