friendless Quotes

“It’s terrible not to have a friend. I’m so lonely and so alone. I think it’s worse on weekends than during the week, but I don’t know. It’s pretty bad all the time.”

“Kana stopped one afternoon to watch Mafatu at work on his nets. Of all the youths of his own age, Kana alone had been friendly.”

“Anyone can betray anyone.”

The two quickly become friends, and through this friendship Prietita comes to see the vast differences between her life and that of Joaquin’s, and the challenges that come with being labeled as an illegal from across the border.

“It was a very lonesome place. I’m sure I could never have lived there if I hadn’t had an imagination.”

“I went away, and the gray apes came down from the trees and had pity on me. No one else cared.”