Spanglish (2004)

Aimee Garcia: Narrator

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : I've been overwhelmed by your encouragement to apply to your university and your list of scholarships available to me. Though, as I hope this essay shows, your acceptance, while it would thrill me, will not define me. My identity rests firmly and happily on one fact: I am my mother's daughter. Thank you, Cristina Moreno

• [first lines] 

  Boy's Voice : [voiceover to scene of people reviewing applications]  To Dean of Admission, Princeton University. The most influential person in my life...

  Girl's Voice : ...is Mother Teresa, whose example helped me overcome the arrogance which threatened after my 1600 SAT score in National Merit Scholarship

  Girl's Voice #2 : ...most influential person taught me the most important word I've ever learned; Aloha, which I...

  Narrator : To the Dean of Admission, Princeton University, from Cristina Moreno. Most influential person, my Mother, No Contest!

• Narrator : When people exist under one roof, a tiny society forms - the stuff of novellas: masters and servants, unconsciously dancing in lockstep. So that when things go wrong, problems converge.