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I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean, lost to everything but each other.
— Cristina Henriquez
Because a place can do many things against you, and if it's your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That's how it works.
— Cristina Henriquez
I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignore
— Cristina Henriquez
You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.
— Cristina Henriquez
The truth was that I didn't know which I was. I wasn't allowed to claim the thing I felt and I didn't feel the thing I was supposed to claim.
— Cristina Henriquez
Armando's not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.
— Cristina Henriquez
I understood how easily and how quickly things could be snatched away.
— Cristina Henriquez
I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.
— Cristina Henriquez
And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.
— Cristina Henriquez
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
— E. E. Cummings
But it was only a word - justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn't enough.
— Cristina Henriquez
I know some people here think we're trying to take over, but we just want to be a part of it. We want to have our stake. This is our home, too.
— Cristina Henriquez
Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
— Cristina Henriquez
Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people.
— Cristina Henriquez
The characters were not unknown because they were illegal or didn't have the documents but because people didn't want to know them.
— Cristina Henriquez
They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
— Jane Austen
Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.
— Cristina Henriquez
There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created
— Cristina Henriquez
I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
— Cristina Henriquez
Blues are the songs of despair,
— Mahalia Jackson
People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.
— Cristina Henriquez