The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.