43 Quotes by Cristina Henriquez

People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

I didn’t want to accept that in order to move forward, I had to walk through it. It was so much easier just to believe there was another path I could take around it and that at the end of that path would be the destination I wanted. It would be easier to want to end up at a lie, instead of the truth.

You could trace it back infinitely. All these different veins, but who knew which one led to the heart?

I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be a future waiting for me, waiting for us, a future that would reveal itself if only I turned around and looked, and that once I did, I could start to move toward it.

Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing:.

There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they’d created.

Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.

What kind of place required a man to work all day without being allowed to eat or drink? There had to be rules, didn’t there? This was America, after all.

Sometimes I think I would rather just remember it in my head, all those streets and the places I loved. The way it smelled of car exhaust and sweet fruit. The thickness of the heat. The sound of dogs barking in alleyways. That’s the Panama I want to hold on to. Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That’s how it works.