Quotes from Angie Cruz

She says if she surrounded herself with work by mediocre artists all day she'd slit her wrist with frustration. What do you mean? I find it inspiring. When was the last time you saw a Latina artist in a gallery? I never thought about it like that.

To be angry and not have the power to control your life. To not feel safe. To depend on a person who reminds you how they can hurt you, even kill you, at their whim. I understand.

I have never seen before was in front of the place for the hamburgers. You know the place — if you eat one, it's OK, but if you eat two, you shit in your panties? Oh, you know it? You like it? Ay. Every time, I get a stomachache.

To love you has blinded me from paying attention to my goals. Somehow love has made me soft and stupid.

Don't forget about us. No lights are too bright to forget where you come from. Remember. Remember.

I may not have a chair to sit on, he often says, but I have my word.

My sweet, hollow Dominicana will keep all of my secrets: she has no eyes, no lips, no mouth.

Dreaming is good to do when you're sleeping. But as long as we're awake, nobody wants to go hungry.

Dreaming is good to do when you're sleeping. But, as long as we're awake, nobody wants to go hungry.

In the end, I got the best of that man. I never got the bad; only the sweet. We took good care of each other for many years.

Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, and cooked them too. But here, I want to save the chicken from its fate.

no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution to my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do it.

She had a mouth like a mop: picking up the dirt from all the corners.

Ramón's wife's brother's cousin's sister

Yes, I was lonely, but I knew then and I know now: I did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes. You know what I'm saying?

A man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

Maybe if i just lie under the sun long enough I will melt like an ice cube and all my sadness will evaporate into the air so i can start again.

Sometimes we need help to not drown in a glass of water.

Cara, we must not wait to live the life we want. Find a way to be present with the people you love.

She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside.

I want to forget everything and start again.

She said, Don't worry about me. I've done everything I've ever wanted to do. Cara, we must not wait to live the life we want. Find a way to be present with the people you love.

I want to let myself die and live in dreams.