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“People don’t fall in love like it’s a hole in the ground. Love is not an accident. Love doesn’t arrive or drop from the sky like rain. Love is a carefully prepared meal between two people who will sit and eat together. You don’t ‘find’ love, mi amor. You choose it. And to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.”

— Patricia Engel, It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris

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books cristina read in 2021: infinite country - patricia engel

“What was it about this 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.”

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I finished reading this today and truly loved it.