“I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.”

— Esmeralda Santiago

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Puerto Rican writer and actor 1948

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