House on Mango Street

p. # 748

"The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded."

This quote is important because it explains how the narrator feels about the homes that she has lived in. It seems like she is so upset that she is living in these dilapitated houses, not even realizing that she could have it worse. She doesn't realize that she could not even have enough. Who cares if people criticize you for living in a shack.

p. # 749

"Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem."

This is a very poetic line. It is saying that the only house, the only place that the narrator wants to be is in a quiet place, that is in solitude. The paper before the poem is saying that before a poem is written, there is only paper, and that's what she wants, the paper not the poem.