Improvisando Papi Quotes

#1. Mami still had an air around Papi,
like he was a medicine she knew she needed
even as she cringed at the taste. #Quote by Elizabeth Acevedo

#2. Mami wanted me to be a lady: sit up straight, cross my ankles, let men protect me. Papi wanted me to be a leader. To think quick & strike hard, to speak rarely, but when I did, to always be heard. Me? Playing chess taught me a queen is both: deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless. Quiet & cunning. A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time #Quote by Elizabeth Acevedo

#3. Mami had no choice but to tell Carlito and me the real story that same night.

In a way, I always knew something like that had happened. It was the only way to explain why my older brother got such special treatment his whole life - everyone scared to demand that he go to school, that he study, that he have better manners, that he stop pushing me around.

El Pobrecito is what everyone called him, and I always wondered why.

I was two years younger and nobody, and I mean nadie, paid me any mind, which is why, when our mother told me the story of our father trying to kill his son like we were people out of the Bible, part of me wished our papi had thrown me off that bridge instead. #Quote by Patricia Engel

#4. Lately I'll hear Dad muttering some of the thing Papi used to. My favorite is 'El que no enucuentra el amor no encuentra nada'. He who does not find love does not find anything. #Quote by Carrie Arcos

#5. Every day I searched for new songs, and it was like applying for asylum. I just needed someone to help me escape from all the silence. I just needed people saying words about all the things that hurt them. And maybe this is why Papi stopped listening to music, because it can make your body want to rebel. To speak up. And even that young I learned music can become a bridge between you and a total stranger. #Quote by Elizabeth Acevedo

#6. Papi Pacify"

[Intro]
He pacifies
He pacifies
He...
Clarify our love
Pacify
Pacify
Clarify our love
(Clarify, clarify, clarify)
Clarify
Clarify
Pacify our love

[Verse 1]
Oh show
Tell me I'm the only one
Like I didn't know
Oh show
Tell me you're the one that I can call
Even if you choke

[Chorus 1]
Mmmmmh, papi pacify
Pacify our love
Mmh, mmh, mmh, mmh, won't you clarify
Clarify it hurts
Mmmmmh, papi pacify
Pacify our love, our love, love
Mmh, mmh, mmh, mmh, won't you clarify
Clarify it hurts

[Post-Chorus]
Papi pacify
Papi pacify

[Verse 2]
Oh show
Make me everything you want
Never tell me no
(I'll try)
Whisper you're the one to fix it too
Even if you won't

[Chorus]
Mmmmmh, papi pacify
Pacify our love
Mmh, mmh, mmh, mmh, won't you clarify
Clarify it hurts
Mmmmmh, papi pacify
Pacify our love, our love, love
Mmh, mmh, mmh, mmh, won't you clarify
Clarify it hurts

[Outro]
Pacify our love
Clarify it hurts
Mmmmmh, papi pacify
Pacify our love, our love, love
Mmh, mmh, mmh, mmh, won't you clarify
Clarify it hurts
Papi pacified
Papi pacified #Quote by FKA Twigs

#7. The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind. #Quote by Sarah Ockler

#8. Seemingly every year at least one of the league's top sluggers can be found in Boston's lineup - and often times more than one. David Ortiz was second or third in slugging five consecutive seasons from 2003-07. Manny Ramirez was in the top five in slugging six consecutive seasons from 2001-06. Manny and Big Papi were one-two in slugging in 2004, and from 2003-06 Boston's big bats gave the club two of the league's top five sluggers - something no other team in the league could boast. #Quote by Tucker Elliot

#9. Papi was a man split in two, / playing a game against himself. // But the problem with that / is that in order to win, you also always lose. #Quote by Elizabeth Acevedo

#10. Big Papi placed among the top five in Most Valuable Player balloting during his first five seasons with the Red Sox. His best finish in that span was second place in 2005, just losing out to Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. It was A-Rod, however, who suggested he'd gladly trade his hardware for the ring Ortiz won in 2004. A-Rod got the hardware for MVP again in 2007, but it was Ortiz who got another ring. #Quote by Tucker Elliot

#11. But love gets in the way of her paper flowers, love keeps them secret from Papi. Chabella and Papi have ways of looking at each other, ways of touching that are full of stunned caution. They trip over each other constantly, marvel each time. When Mami sits down at the table, wiping her hands on her cooking skirt after she's set dishes down before us, Papi takes her hand, strokes her fingers, says her name as if he's asking it. Mami nods at him; her lips smile, her eyes smile. I grew up doubting that anyone would ever look at me in the same way. My doubt contains no great trauma; it's casual, the way people doubt they can jump off a bridge and fly. #Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

#12. And what if many-even if most-of the Slothropian stars are proved, some distant day, to refer to sexual fantasies instead of real events? This would hardly invalidate our approach, any more than it did young Sigmund Freud's, back there in old Vienna, facing a similar violation of probability-all those Papi-has-raped-me stories, which might have been lies evidentially, but were certainly the truth clinically. You must realize: we are concerned, at PISCES, with a rather strictly defined, clinical version of truth. We seek no wider agency in this. #Quote by Thomas Pynchon

#13. How much English do you know? None, Papi said after a moment. Eulalio shook his head. Papi met Eulalio last and liked him least. #Quote by Junot Diaz

#14. On the walk home he asks her, "How was training today, my angel?" As he looks down into her beautiful, ice blue eyes he marvels at her beauty. Her long, black hair, fair skin and eye color are a striking difference next to his tan skin, brown eyes and black hair. Elina heaves a huge sigh, "I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I do nothing right. Today, I was able to project farther than ever. It was amazing, Papi! #Quote by Lynn Landes

#15. This place, our little cloud forest, even though we missed our papi, it was the most beautiful place you've ever seen. We didn't really know that then, because it was the only place we'd ever seen, except in picture in books and magazines, but now that's I've seen other place, I know. I know how beautiful it was. And we loved it anyway even before we knew. Because the trees had these enormous dark green leaves, as a big as a bed, and they would sway in the wind. And when it rain you could hear the big, fat raindrops splatting onto those giant leaves, and you could only see the sky in bright blue patches if you were walking a long way off to a friend's house or to church or something, when you passed through a clearing and all those leaves would back away and open up and the hot sunshine would beat down all yellow and gold and sticky. And there were waterfalls everywhere with big rock pools where you could take a bath and the water was always warm and it smelled like sunlight. And at night there was the sound of the tree frogs and the music of the rushing water from the falls and all the songs of the night birds, and Mami would make the most delicious chilate, and Abuela would sing to us in the old language, and Soledad and I would gather herbs and dry them and bundle them for Papi to sell in the market when he had a day off, and that's how we passed our days.'

Luca can see it. He's there, far away in the misty cloud forest, in a hut with a packed dirt floor and a c #Quote by Jeanine Cummins

#16. Papi looked down at the side-view mirror, at the pine branches sticking out from behind the truck, and every time Rocio raised her voice, singing and screaming at the same time, it felt like the front seats were flooding with water. #Quote by Mario Alberto Zambrano

#17. The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with you today, Papi! In the midst of nature's monstrous elements, in the wind, the immenseness of the sea, the depth of the waves, the imposing green roof of the bush, you feel your own infinitesimal smallness, and perhaps it's here, without looking for Him, that you find God, that you touch Him with your finger. I had sensed Him at night during the thousands of hours I had spent buried alive in dank dungeons without a ray of sun; I touched Him today in a sun that would devour everything too weak to resist it. I touched God, I felt Him around me, inside me. He even whispered in my ear: You will suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you. #Quote by Henri Charriere

#18. A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better. #Quote by Ricky Martin

#19. What's the border, Papi?'
'Hills,' Her father whispered. 'Hills and bushes, that's all it is. But we must walk across it.'
'Papi, if it's just land, why can't we take the bus all the way there. Why must we walk across?'
'Because we don't have papers, Carmen. And even though it is just land, it represents a wall. We must go like thieves.'
Juana wished she could ask what the father meant by that. Hills and bushes, that's what the border was. How strange. #Quote by Reyna Grande