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Top 25 Patricia Engel Quotes (2025 Update)

Patricia Engel Quote: “There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.”

1. “There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “And maybe there is no nation or citizenry; they’re just territories mapped in place of family, in place of love, the infinite country.”

2. “And maybe there is no nation or citizenry; they’re just territories mapped in place of family, in place of love, the infinite country.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “We didn’t yet know about undertows and rip currents, the many ways the ocean can turn on you.”

3. “We didn’t yet know about undertows and rip currents, the many ways the ocean can turn on you.”

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Patricia Engel Quote: “You don’t ‘find’ love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.”

4. “You don’t ‘find’ love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it’s ugly and distorted; you’ve become a scorned, unwanted creature.”

5. “Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it’s ugly and distorted; you’ve become a scorned, unwanted creature.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen. She never thought that when she left on the plane with Maulo, it would be the last time to see her mother in the flesh.”

6. “When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen. She never thought that when she left on the plane with Maulo, it would be the last time to see her mother in the flesh.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.”

7. “I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “The only way to get what we want from life is to ask for it.” I.”

8. “The only way to get what we want from life is to ask for it.” I.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “We all have breaking points, we all have regrets and maybe more instances we don’t regret that society says we should.”

9. “We all have breaking points, we all have regrets and maybe more instances we don’t regret that society says we should.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “Again, I think of Carlito. The years I tried to serve his sentence with him, and how he let me. Maybe it was wrong of me, but sometimes I hoped that he’d see in my eyes how I’d stopped living for anything and anyone but him, and that he would tell me not to come back.”

10. “Again, I think of Carlito. The years I tried to serve his sentence with him, and how he let me. Maybe it was wrong of me, but sometimes I hoped that he’d see in my eyes how I’d stopped living for anything and anyone but him, and that he would tell me not to come back.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “We can’t be both human and divine. To be human is to be imperfect.” When.”

11. “We can’t be both human and divine. To be human is to be imperfect.” When.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “Asks me what I do for a living, and I think, I’m only twenty-two. I don’t do anything for a living except smoke cigarettes and throw my heart around.”

12. “Asks me what I do for a living, and I think, I’m only twenty-two. I don’t do anything for a living except smoke cigarettes and throw my heart around.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “Mo and the staff talk about captivity like it’s the best thing a dolphin can hope for, but that kind of talk just makes me think of Carlito and all the years he spent trapped by the routines of prison life in a six-by-nine-foot prison cell, the size of a parking space, and what Dr. Joe used to say about inmates like my brother who were also sentenced to solitary confinement: ‘It doesn’t have to be violent for it to be torture.”

13. “Mo and the staff talk about captivity like it’s the best thing a dolphin can hope for, but that kind of talk just makes me think of Carlito and all the years he spent trapped by the routines of prison life in a six-by-nine-foot prison cell, the size of a parking space, and what Dr. Joe used to say about inmates like my brother who were also sentenced to solitary confinement: ‘It doesn’t have to be violent for it to be torture.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “It’s a sea of death,” Universo said. “But the water remembers what civilization tries to forget.”

14. “It’s a sea of death,” Universo said. “But the water remembers what civilization tries to forget.”

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Patricia Engel Quote: “There was a time when we dreamed of returning there to live, Mami, Carlito, and me. We idealized Cartagena all year long as Mami saved up for our summer trips, but when we got there, it was never the way we wanted it to be – too hot, too rainy, too full of pueblo chisme, too grim, too hopeless. Still, during our prison visits, Carlito liked to conjure stories from the Cartagena of our nostalgia and made me swear that if he never got the chance to go back, I’d go for him.”

15. “There was a time when we dreamed of returning there to live, Mami, Carlito, and me. We idealized Cartagena all year long as Mami saved up for our summer trips, but when we got there, it was never the way we wanted it to be – too hot, too rainy, too full of pueblo chisme, too grim, too hopeless. Still, during our prison visits, Carlito liked to conjure stories from the Cartagena of our nostalgia and made me swear that if he never got the chance to go back, I’d go for him.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “Her father said the death of a loved one was like a house on fire. Even with everything intact, it still felt like mere ashes.”

16. “Her father said the death of a loved one was like a house on fire. Even with everything intact, it still felt like mere ashes.”

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Patricia Engel Quote: “There’s not one living thing on this planet that doesn’t scream to survive.” I.”

17. “There’s not one living thing on this planet that doesn’t scream to survive.” I.”

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Patricia Engel Quote: “What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.”

18. “What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “I don’t know why you want to leave the country. You’re obviously a guerrillera by nature.”

19. “I don’t know why you want to leave the country. You’re obviously a guerrillera by nature.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep.”

20. “She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “And was it true, he asked, the stories of cities contaminated by the water supply, children killed by police with impunity, communities left to fend for themselves against natural disasters as bad as the earthquakes and mudslides this land endured? How could people still think of bring-land as some promised land knowing those things happened there?”

21. “And was it true, he asked, the stories of cities contaminated by the water supply, children killed by police with impunity, communities left to fend for themselves against natural disasters as bad as the earthquakes and mudslides this land endured? How could people still think of bring-land as some promised land knowing those things happened there?”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “The more he stared at those borders on maps, the more absurd it seemed that outsiders succeeded in declaring possession of these lands with national lines, as if Creation could ever be divided and owned.”

22. “The more he stared at those borders on maps, the more absurd it seemed that outsiders succeeded in declaring possession of these lands with national lines, as if Creation could ever be divided and owned.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “You only community was y our family. From the world beyond your tios and primos, you were made to understand, before you could spell your own name, that even if you were born in this country, even if you speak the language, you will always be an outsider; this country will never belong to you.”

23. “You only community was y our family. From the world beyond your tios and primos, you were made to understand, before you could spell your own name, that even if you were born in this country, even if you speak the language, you will always be an outsider; this country will never belong to you.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “There are things I wanted to tell my sister before her arrival. Like that you can love the United States of Diasporica and still be afraid of it. The day after the last election, some kids came skipping into home room like a war was won. Hearing cocaine jokes and mechanical hallway insults of “go back to your country” was nothing new for me and Nando, but there was new brazenness, like a gloved hand reaching for our throats, reminding us we were not welcome.”

24. “There are things I wanted to tell my sister before her arrival. Like that you can love the United States of Diasporica and still be afraid of it. The day after the last election, some kids came skipping into home room like a war was won. Hearing cocaine jokes and mechanical hallway insults of “go back to your country” was nothing new for me and Nando, but there was new brazenness, like a gloved hand reaching for our throats, reminding us we were not welcome.”

— Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel Quote: “That night I thought about how love comes paired with failures, apologies for deficiencies. The only remedy is compassion.”

25. “That night I thought about how love comes paired with failures, apologies for deficiencies. The only remedy is compassion.”

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Patricia Engel Quote: “It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving her country’s victims.”

26. “It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving her country’s victims.”

— Patricia Engel

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