Quotes 'Techniques In Gabriel García Márquez's'

1. “She kneels and kisses Belky and hugs her tightly… But Lourdes cannot face Enrique… His mother steps off the porch. She walks away. ’¿Dónde está mi mami?’ Enrique cries, over and over. ‘Where is my mom?’ His mother never returns, and that decides Enrique’s fate.”
(Nazario 5)
2. “The hut was twelve by fifteen feet. It had one small wooden window and dirt floors. There was no bathroom… There was no electricity… Nine people slept in the hut. They crowded onto two beds and a slim mattress jammed each night into the aisle between the beds.”
(Nazario 33)
3. “ Besides, some say, giving is a good way to protest Mexico’s policies against illegal immigration. As one man who lives on the tracks of Veracruz puts it, ‘It’s wrong for our government to
send people back to Central America. If we don’t want to be stopped from going into the United States, how can we stop Central Americans in our country?’ ”
(Nazario 103)
4.” They are moving fast through pines and elms, past billboards and fields, yellow lilies and purple lilacs… It goes over a bridge and passes cattle pastures with large rolls of hay….Finally, at the end of a short gravel street, some house trailers. One is beige. Built in the 1950s, it has white metal awnings and is framed in tall green trees.”
(Nazario 189)
5. “ Jasmin asks, ‘Why are you crying so much, mami?’… Maria Isabel hasn't told her daughter that she is leaving. She can't. Still, Jasmin is bright… ‘I'm going out,’ Maria Isabel says. ‘I’ll be right back.’ ‘Where are you going?’ … ‘Are you coming back?’ … Maria Isabel is silent… Maria Isabel does not say goodbye to her daughter. She does not hug her… She does not look back. She never tells her she is going to the United States."
(Nazario 238)