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“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

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

“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

“I understood how easily and how quickly things could be snatched away.”

— Cristina Henriquez

“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

“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

“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

“Armando's not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.”

— Cristina Henriquez

“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

“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

“But it was only a word—justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn’t enough.”

— 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…

— Cristina Henriquez