I’ve put up with too much, too long, and now I’m just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.
You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.
I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
My weapon has always been language, and I’ve always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they’re flowers, or bridges.
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.