I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

The half-life of love is forever.

Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture