The passage discusses the passive voice in English and Spanish. It notes that the passive voice allows omitting the subject or using "se" so the agent of the action is not mentioned. Examples are provided such as "Se venden libros aquí" and "Books are sold here" as well as "A su padre lo mataron en la guerra" and "His father was killed in the war."

1. T H E
P A S S I V E
V O I C E

2. T H E P A S S IV E V O IC E
 L a p a s iv a in g le s a s e u s a m á s q u e e n e s p a ñ o l, y a
q u e n o s o t r o s c o n t a m o s c o n r e c u r s o s lin g ü í s t ic o s
c o m o e l s u je t o o m itid o o e l u s o d e “ s e ” q u e n o s
p e r m it e n n o m e n c io n a r a l a g e n t e d e la a c c i ó n
v e r b a l:
 “ S e v e n d e n lib r o s a q u í ” –
 “ B o o k s a r e s o ld h e r e ”
 “ A s u p a d r e lo m a t a r o n e n la g u e r r a ” -
 “ H is f a t h e r w a s k ille d in t h e w a r ”
...a mathematical formula
for happiness:R/E, or
Reality divided by
Expectations.
There were two ways to be
happy: improve your
reality or lower your
expectations

3. Four-eyes; blind as a bat.
Four-eyes;Four-eyes;
blind as ablind as a
bat.bat.

4. If you spent your life
concentrating on what
everyone else thought
of you, would you
forget who you really
were? What if the face
you showed the world
turned out to be a
mask,,, with nothing
beneath it?

5. If you gave someone
your heart and they died,
did they take it with
them? Did you spend
the rest of
forever with a hole
inside you that couldn't
be filled?

6. Old habits die hard.

7. If you
hope, get
ready for
a
disappointment.

8. She wasn't the brightest
bulb in the chandelier.

9. “I couldn't make
myself small enough
to fit into the space he
wanted me to fit into,
in order to be part of
his life. Does this
make sense?”

10. Taking credit for what a child did well also
meant accepting responsibility for what they
did wrong.

11. ,
When you love someone,
there's a pattern to the way
you come together....It's a
routine, but not in the boring
sense of the word.It's just
the way you've learned to fit,
and it's why, when you've
been with one guy for a long
time, tour teeth do n not
scrape together when you
kiss; you do not bump
noses or elbows.

12. When you begin a journey of
revenge, start by digging two graves:
One for your enemy,
And one for yourself.
-Chinese proverb.

13. .
There were some memories, she
knew, you could run from
forever and never shake

14. The geeks in one corner, the jocks in
another

15. She had
enough on her
plate.

16. The kind of gift you had to take out of its box
every now and then, hold aloft, marvel at, so you
didn't forget that it was still in your possession.

17. You can't
fast-forward
your child's
life, no
matter how
much you
want to.

18. Every one
thinks you make
mistakes when
you're
young,...but I
don't think we
make any fewer
when we're
grown up