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Quote #10
Dying is lonely and I wanted to go to where the moths were, stay with her and plant chayotes whose vines would crawl up her fingers and into the clouds; I wanted to rest my head on her chest with her stroking my hair, telling me about the moths that lay within the soul and slowly eat the spirit up; I wanted to return to the waters of the womb with her so that we would never be alone again. (16)
The narrator says that dying is lonely, which is kind of weird because she's not the one who has actually died here. That would be her grandmother. Metaphorically, though, Abuelita's death ushers in the death of the narrator's childhood—so the narrator does experience her own death of sorts, too. And in both cases, she feels intensely lonely.