I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. - Sonia Sotomayor

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?