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Olga’s best friend. Angie is a complete wreck after Olga’s death, and the level of pain and dishevelment she’s experiencing doesn’t make sense to the unemotional Julia. After Julia finds lingerie and a hotel key card in Olga’s room, she goes to Angie to try to find out more about who Olga really was—and what she may have been hiding—but though Angie clearly knows something, she refuses to let Julia in. Later on in the novel, after Julia hacks Olga’s emails and discovers that Olga was pregnant when she died, she confronts Angie once again—this time, Angie is more open, and reveals that though she knew about Olga’s years-long affair with an older man (and her resultant pregnancy,) she believed that telling Olga’s family about her less-than-perfect personal life would only hurt them. Angie is important to Julia’s reluctant understanding of the fact that sometimes, the secrets people keep and the lies they tell help more than they hurt.
Angie Quotes in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
The I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Angie or refer to Angie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Olga’s friend Angie comes running in, looking like she was the one hit by a semi. She’s beautiful, but, damn, is she an ugly crier. Her skin is like a bright pink rag someone has wrung out. As soon as she sees Olga, she starts howling almost worse than Amá. I wish I knew the right thing to say, but I don’t. I never do.
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Chapter 4
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“You know, Julia, you’re always causing trouble, creating problems for your family. Now that she’s dead, all of a sudden you want to know everything about her? You hardly even spoke to her. Why didn’t you ask her anything when she was alive? Maybe you wouldn’t have to be here, asking me questions about her love life.”
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Chapter 24
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“I understand that it hurts, believe me, but this isn’t about you. […] Why would you want to cause your family more pain?
“Because we shouldn’t be living lies,” I say. […] “I’m tired of pretending and letting things blister inside me. Keeping things to myself almost killed me. I don’t want to live like that anymore.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Forget it.” Part of me wonders if Angie is right—who am I to do this to my family?—but I hate this feeling, like the weight of this will make my chest collapse.
Angie wipes the tears from her eyes with her palms. “Some things should never be said out loud, Julia. Can’t you see that?”
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Angie Quotes in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
The I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Angie or refer to Angie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
Quotes
Olga’s friend Angie comes running in, looking like she was the one hit by a semi. She’s beautiful, but, damn, is she an ugly crier. Her skin is like a bright pink rag someone has wrung out. As soon as she sees Olga, she starts howling almost worse than Amá. I wish I knew the right thing to say, but I don’t. I never do.
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Chapter 4
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“You know, Julia, you’re always causing trouble, creating problems for your family. Now that she’s dead, all of a sudden you want to know everything about her? You hardly even spoke to her. Why didn’t you ask her anything when she was alive? Maybe you wouldn’t have to be here, asking me questions about her love life.”
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Chapter 24
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“I understand that it hurts, believe me, but this isn’t about you. […] Why would you want to cause your family more pain?
“Because we shouldn’t be living lies,” I say. […] “I’m tired of pretending and letting things blister inside me. Keeping things to myself almost killed me. I don’t want to live like that anymore.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Forget it.” Part of me wonders if Angie is right—who am I to do this to my family?—but I hate this feeling, like the weight of this will make my chest collapse.
Angie wipes the tears from her eyes with her palms. “Some things should never be said out loud, Julia. Can’t you see that?”
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