Quote one Page 61: "Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time." -Edwidge Danticat says reciting from memory what her uncle has told her.
Importance: This quote really struck out to me. It did because it was a strange way of looking at death and it made me reconsider what death really is.
Personal connection: I am connected to this quote because I have thought this exact same thing sense sixth grade. Everything ends, nothing lasts forever. Life is a death trap. I thought that by thinking that everyone was getting closer to death every second wasn't very positive- but it made me reconsider a lot of things. I thought of life sort of reversed, like death is life and life is death. I think that looking at life this way is sort of strange because people don't consider each other "dying" unless they are fatally ill and know they don't have long to live. But in reality, we are reaching closer to death all the time it just is if you consider it 'dying'.
Question 1: How do you think this quote will effect/has effected the family's view on life?
Quote one page 73 bottom paragraph: "Death is a journey we embark on from the moment we are born" he'd say. "An hourglass is turned and the sand starts to slip in different direction as soon as we emerge from our mother's womb. Thank God those around us are too blinded by joy then to realize it. Otherwise there would be weeping at births as well. But if we weep at death it's because we do not understand death. If we saw death as another kind of birth, just as the Gospel exhorts us to, we wouldn't weep, but rejoice, just as we do at the birth of a child." -It's not clear who says this.
Importance This quote really brings out whoever who said this' character. I can tell that they are someone very inspired by life and has probably been through a lot just by this quote. I think that Edwidge Danticat remembers this quote so clearly because it inspired her and maybe she will look back on it on the death of her father and the birth of her child. Also, it was very vivid and I felt like I could see a hourglass and a baby and a funeral in front of me - the words were strung together nicely.
Personal Connection: This quote is somewhat similar to the first. I feel like this quote has really twisted my view on birth and death. This quote says birth is very close to death and they should be looked at the same way. It really inspired me because I have somewhat considered this but this quote really put it out there and explained it nicely and makes you really wonder.

Question two: Who said that quote? (page 73)
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