Sandra Cisneros Quotes

When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.

Sandra Cisneros

• Eye
• Grief
• Cry
• Confrontation
• Hello
• Peanuts

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• When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Eye
  • Grief
  • Cry