"She thinks stories are about beauty. Beauty that is there to be admired by everyone, like a herd of clouds grazing overhead. She thinks people who are busy working for a living deserve beautiful little stories, because they don't have much time and they are often tired. She has in mind a book that can be opened at any page and will still make sense to the reader who doesn't know what came before or comes after."
'A House of My Own': Introduction to The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros