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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