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Yunior (The Narrator)
A strong, extremely intelligent woman, Lola is Oscar’s sister and the “one who got away” who captures Yunior’s heart. Lola has big dreams of escaping her small hometown and seeing more of the world, but her love for her family and her sense of duty, despite her strained relationship with her mother Beli, pull her back to Paterson and Santo Domingo each time family tragedy strikes. However, she knows enough about herself and the harsh realities of the world not to fall for a player like Yunior. Lola ultimately makes a new life for herself in Miami, where she marries a Cuban man and has a daughter, Isis.
Lola de León Quotes in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao quotes below are all either spoken by Lola de León or refer to Lola de León. 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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Book 1, Chapter 2
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You don’t know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around—especially the ones that are never around. What it's like to be the perfect Dominican daughter, which is just a nice way of saying a perfect Dominican slave.
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And that's when it hit with the force of a hurricane. The feeling. I stood straight up, the way my mother always wanted me to stand up. My abuela was sitting there, forlorn, trying to cobble together the right words and I could not move or breathe. I felt like I always did at the last seconds of a race, when I was sure that I was going to explode. She was about to say something and I was waiting for whatever she was going to tell me. I was waiting to begin.
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Book 3, Chapter 8
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On one of our last nights as novios (boyfriend and girlfriend) she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are.
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Lola de León Quotes in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao quotes below are all either spoken by Lola de León or refer to Lola de León. 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:
).
Book 1, Chapter 2
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You don’t know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around—especially the ones that are never around. What it's like to be the perfect Dominican daughter, which is just a nice way of saying a perfect Dominican slave.
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And that's when it hit with the force of a hurricane. The feeling. I stood straight up, the way my mother always wanted me to stand up. My abuela was sitting there, forlorn, trying to cobble together the right words and I could not move or breathe. I felt like I always did at the last seconds of a race, when I was sure that I was going to explode. She was about to say something and I was waiting for whatever she was going to tell me. I was waiting to begin.
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Book 3, Chapter 8
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On one of our last nights as novios (boyfriend and girlfriend) she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are.
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