Quotes by : Cristina Henriquez

You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.

I took his razor from the shower floor, bits of his black hair still caked between the blades. I took....

Sometimes I think I would rather just remember it in my head, all those streets and the places I loved.....

Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Or, I should say, I lie by omission. I....

English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels....

Finding is for things that are lost. You don't need to find me, Mayor.

I thought suddenly, what is the meaning of all these things? All these bags and bags I've been packing?....

You don’t understand,” my dad said. “They stop you.” “Who? What are you talking about?” my....

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act....