# When I Was Puerto Rican

- Author: [Esmeralda Santiago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/esmeralda-santiago.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/esmeralda-santiago/when-i-was-puerto-rican

## Quotes

> I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

> What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

> For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.