...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

When people are always telling you that you have to have a lot of women, women are very important, there's a chance that you might actually begin to observe them on a more fundamental level. Then you get so much focus that one day you might actually see. Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Anger has a way of returning.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.