How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from West Side Story.
Quote #10
MARIA: How many bullets are left, Chino? Enough for you, and you? All of you. You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets and guns: with hate. Well, I can kill too because now I have hate! How many can I kill, Chino? How many and still have one bullet left for me?
Maria's words ring true. She's that filled with hate. Yet even then, she doesn't take revenge the way the other characters to. She rises above racism and sets the gun down. She's the one to finally breaks the cycle. But it just costs her everything to do it.