You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.