“In reality, no human being, with the right mindset can ever allow someone to slap them while sitting idle.”

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”

“The truth, or rather, reality is far from any human can ever reach.”

“It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.”

“And she slapped him across the face, once, twice, three times, but still Ramón continued speaking in Spanish, telling us not to fear, that we were Mexicanos, and that we weren’t their slaves! I quit crying, just like that. My God, I couldn’t believe it, this boy Ramón had to be the bravest human being I’d ever seen. And the huge teacher, she just kept right on slapping him until his face was covered with blood.”

“I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.”

“Reality is a fabrication slapped together by an often bumbling inner team. …The proclamation that "there can be no such thing as an objective fact" has a great deal of validity.”