“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
