Quote by Cristina Henriquez Download Open image ““I understood how easily and how quickly things could be snatched away.”” — Cristina Henriquez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“How was it possible that all this should be taken away in an instant? But so it was.” — Stratis Myrivilis Copy Share Image
“I don't think that the things are easy to understand, but such a way I get the courage to figure out the most difficult… — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.” — Balthasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“...you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.” — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
“Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.” — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
“Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“You know, some things you can't take back. Be careful about throwing those kinds of things away. Save them for when they matter.” — Christina Coryell 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 be with… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.” — Cristina Henriquez 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 have a… — Cristina Henriquez 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 in the… — Cristina Henriquez 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 beast, man.… — Cristina Henriquez 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 Díaz, The… — 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 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 piece of… — Cristina Henriquez 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 condition: if… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
“But it was only a word—justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn’t enough.” — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
“I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
“ I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean, lost to… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
