I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important, but without the really positive framework of why. You figure out quickly it's because of culo (ass). But there is a sense that it's not that simple.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.