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HEY GUYS!!!! OK, so I found five important quotes from "In the Time of the Butterflies." Which one is your favorite, or which one do you guys think is the most important or powerful?

1) (Minerva, chapter 2) "The country people around the farm say that until the nail is hit, it doesn't believe in the hammer."

2) (Minerva, chapter 6) "I know the clouds have already rained."

3) (Dede, chapter 8) "I followed my husband. I didn't get involved."

4) (Patricia, chapter 8) "I scrambled to a little niche where a statue of the Virgencita was standing, and begging her pardon, I knocked her and her pedestal over."

5) (Maria Teresa, chapter 11) "May I never experience all that it is possible to get used to."

P.S I found these all off a "In the Time of the Butterflies" website. :)

I would say my favorite is probably quote one. To me, it means that until you feel pain, you don't believe it can happen to you. All of my teachers, especially in WJPS, always say "You teenagers think you are invincible, and that nothing can happen to you." I think that is pretty true. I watch murders and other crimes on t.v all the time, but I never think anything can happen to me. I thought this was a very important quote for this particular story. I think that either the Maribel sisters are incredibly brave and gutsy for doing what they believe in, or maybe they didn't really think that anything would happen to THEM. Maybe they would have never guessed how their lives would end. (Am I allowed to talk about the end of this book? Or are people going to read this who didn't read this book yet?)

So, that's about it. RESPOND GUYS!

-Gabby