# Julia Alvarez

- Quotes: 19
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez

## Books

- [Homecoming](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming.md) — 19 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Are we all with acute loneliness,
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> chronic patients trying to recover
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> the will to love?
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> ...Sometimes the love
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> of another wounded one acts like a salve
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> which soothes the dying self but cannot heal
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> our lives. And perhaps this is what it feels
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> like to be human, and we are all well?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/are-we-all.md)

> I was driving down the mountain, the curves
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> were bad, I wasn't going slow, the day
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> was one of those that takes your breath away...
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> On hilltops, I made believe I'd take off
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> into the absolute, but as I swerved
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> again and again...
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> and as the sun's
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> autumnal, soporific light shone on...
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> something gave in me and I let go—
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> this driving need to make it all mean more.
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> In time, I turned the wheel back to the road.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/i-was-driving.md)

> I'm watching a romantic play
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> in Plato's cave; half the time I don't
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> believe in it...
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> Other times I'm so addicted I'm one of the mainliners...
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> hallucinating that in truth a man's
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> body is one of the Absolute Forms.
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> I look around when the houselights come on
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> and see no one!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/im-watching-a-romantic.md)

> It's UPS
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> with two parcels! ...
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> a handsome lad, guesses it's my birthday
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> and asks how old I am. He acts surprised
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> he's a decade younger. We linger at the door
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> one of us is not immortal anymore.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/its-ups-with.md)

> I say, Don't trust those men with better,
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> bigger versions of love if they refuse
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> the small, shabby sample they gave others
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> the tribute of believing it was true.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/i-say-dont.md)

> 33 is the year that Jesus Christ
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> embraced His life...
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> ...Wasn't he crucified at 33,
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> I ask, depressed, deserted by his friends,
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> divorced from god, subject to human laws?
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> Wasn't he the most single finally
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> at 33, meeting his lonely end?
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> Yes...

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/33-is-the.md)

> I tried to listen, take notes ...
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> ...and stared out
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> on the New England meadow straight from Frost:
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> acres of grasses and flowers tossed by
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> a wind which whirled with the continual
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> roar of a thousand voices from Babel.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/i-tried-to-listen.md)

> My gay friends ask, Well are you gay or what?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/my-gay-friends.md)

> I dreamed of stretching my pastry dough out
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> to cover the earth with a crust so fine
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> my love would think it was nothing
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> but the world at his feet,
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> baked by the summer sun,
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> dusted with cinnamon.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/i-dreamed-of-stretching.md)

> Gloved with two potholders, I listened
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> while she told me not long ago
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> a girl could not marry until she could roll
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> her dough so transparent her beloved
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> could read his Bible through it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/gloved-with-two.md)

> But my house, though protected
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> with charms, can't block the spell mortality
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> has cast... I turn thirty-three.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/but-my-house.md)

> ...the furious whir of the Singer.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/julia-alvarez/homecoming/the-furious-whir.md)