“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.” — Cristina Henriquez Actor Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.” — Cristina Henriquez Confidence Copy Share Image
“But it was only a word—justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn’t enough.” — Cristina Henriquez Justice Copy Share Image
“I understood how easily and how quickly things could be snatched away.” — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
“Armando's not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.” — Cristina Henriquez Food Copy Share Image
“I know some people here think we’re trying to take over, but we just want to be a part of it. We… — Cristina Henriquez Stake Copy Share Image
“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… — Cristina Henriquez Truth Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the… — Cristina Henriquez Immigrant Copy Share Image
“Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one… — Cristina Henriquez Home Copy Share Image
“Who could think that a person’s entire being is housed in a finger or in a hip bone or in a small… — Cristina Henriquez Skull Copy Share Image
“ I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean,… — Cristina Henriquez Ocean Copy Share Image
“I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but… — Cristina Henriquez Way Felt Copy Share Image
“You can come back one day. Or I could come there." "Maybe." "I could find you." "Finding is for the things that… — Cristina Henriquez Finding Copy Share Image
“What if God wants us to be happy? What if there’s nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is… — Cristina Henriquez Life Copy Share Image
“Americanah; Ayad Akhtar, American Dervish; Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street; Junot… — Cristina Henriquez Life Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t understand—what I suddenly realized now—was that if I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be… — Cristina Henriquez Backwards Copy Share Image
“We stood side by side and looked out at the vastness, the possibility of everything out there. Within the universe, I felt… — Cristina Henriquez Side by side Copy Share Image
“I couldn't swallow. It had to be wrong. We had to be able to rewind. It couldn't be real. It felt so… — cristina henriquez Copy Share Image
“We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of… — Cristina Henriquez Time Copy Share Image
“Americans can handle one person from anywhere. They had Desi Arnaz from Cuba. And Tin Tan from México. And Rita Moreno from… — Cristina Henriquez Puerto rico Copy Share Image
“It was as if, when her father spoke, her mother looked at him and saw a little goldfish, popping open his mouth… — Cristina Henriquez Parenting Copy Share Image
“But I worry what it would be like after all this time. We thought it was unrecognizable when we left, but I… — Cristina Henriquez Remember Copy Share Image
“English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was.… — Cristina Henriquez English Copy Share Image
“It's in you,' my dad assured me once. 'You were born in Panamá. It's in your bones.' I spent a lot of… — Cristina Henriquez Thing Felt Copy Share Image
“No one here wants to admit it, but the United States is part of México’s problem. The United States is feeding the… — Cristina Henriquez Mexico Copy Share Image
“And then again, maybe people and things are the same as emotions: Even when you can't see them or feel them or… — Cristina Henriquez Emotions Copy Share Image
