"The Tortilla Curtain" Quotes
"The Tortilla Curtain" is a novel that explores the intersecting lives of an affluent couple and a Mexican immigrant family, shedding light on the disparities and conflicts in contemporary American society.
fiction | 355 pages | Published in 1995
Quotes
The only reason people lock their doors is because they live in a world where they feel they need to.
He was frightened, he was ashamed, he was cold, he was sick of himself and he was hungry, but he was alive.
You can’t predict the future. You can only live for today.
It was a question, not a statement. But he couldn’t answer it. He didn’t have an answer.
The idea was to make the most of what you had and be happy with it.
She was torn between the need to do something and the fear of doing it.
It was a simple matter of right and wrong, and they’d been right.
There were things you just had to do, whether you liked it or not.
There was nothing to be done but wait, and be patient, and hope for the best.
It wasn’t about him, it was about them, and it made him feel small and mean.
