“We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe.… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing.” — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who stand in doorways and… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“She has many troubles, but the big one is her husband who left and keeps leaving.” — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.” — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
“What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight,… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
