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Angie Cruz QUOTES

1 " Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, reorganizing shells. They work twenty-four hours and many many days without taking a break. The males have many mates and reign over multiple female territories. Once the female is in his territory and tries to leave he will bite her. The female is only allowed a visitor if the visiting fish mutes its bright blue, yellow, and orange spots so that the king puffer fish doesn't feel threatened.
You get what I'm saying, Ana? "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

2 " 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. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

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

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

4 " 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. "

― Angie Cruz , Soledad

5 " He talked to me like he did when I was a child, when his voice was clear and melodic, his hair still dark, when he had only wrinkles around his eyes. He held my hand and patted it softly with every word, as if his words could be tattooed in my veins. He said trees grow up because they want to get closer to the stars. He said everybody is the center of their own world and yet they're just a speck in the universe. He said it's everyone's responsibility to not be afraid to love and to be loved. He told me that I was beautiful, that creating me was a good enough reason to live. He said every time he drank he was destroying a part of himself. We're afraid life is so short, we try to take from it as much as we can. We forget everything we need will come in due time. He said people need to have faith they will be taken care of, that people are part of this earth and the earth always gives us what we need. "

― Angie Cruz , Soledad

6 " I want to forget everything and start again. "

― Angie Cruz , Soledad

7 " I want to let myself die and live in dreams. "

― Angie Cruz , Soledad

8 " ...in our lifetimes we have so much to survive. "

― Angie Cruz , Soledad

9 " Think of your Tía Clara—her daughter married a man who works in New York, and every month he sends the family money. He never fails. They have a cement floor and a new bathroom. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

10 " How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

11 " I remember back to a time when I could walk on the beach without a pass from a hotel. When I was too young to fear getting raped, or hurt or lost. "

― Angie Cruz , Soledad

12 " When you fall in love, you have to play it out even if everyone calls you crazy. That’s why they call it falling. We have no control over it. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

13 " Leave wreckage by the roadside. Burn all decayed tissue. Tightrope from which we emerge. —DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, GOOD STOCK STRANGE BLOOD "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

14 " If a person seems inflexible, yield, then slip in sideways and get what you want. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

15 " I don’t care if I die right there. I want him to thrust inside of me forever. Let this be our last day. Let us die right here. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

16 " I look at my feet. I hold back my tears, slump my shoulders, and retreat just enough to show deference. I have learned a lot from growing up with animals. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

17 " Love, love, love. What good is it, if it can’t put food on the table. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

18 " Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, reorganizing shells. They work twenty-four hours and many many days without taking a break. The males have many mates and reign over multiple female territories. Once the female is in his territory and tries to leave he will bite her. The female is only allowed a visitor if the visiting fish mutes its bright blue, yellow, and orange spots so that the king puffer fish doesn’t feel threatened. You get what I’m saying, Ana? "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

19 " Welcome, Anita, to the club of mothers. Only we know what it’s like to carry another human being. At first it’s the size of a pea, then a grape, an apple, an avocado, then it’s as big as a papaya. To think something so big comes out of something so small. When I had my first one, ugh, I thought it would kill me, but I pushed and pushed, ready to die for the baby that I already loved like I’ve never loved anything else before. It’s extraordinary to stand on the edge of life and death. You’ll see. You’ll see. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

20 " Men can only perform like men, mama always says, when women are doing everything. We're invisible little workers so they can puff out their chests. "

― Angie Cruz , Dominicana