Angie Cruz > Quotes

“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?”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to 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.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Sometimes we need help to not drown in a glass of water.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“A man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.”
― Angie Cruz , Dominicana

“She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“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

“Talking reminds me that 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 this.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“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.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“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

“I want to forget everything and start again.”
― Angie Cruz, Soledad

“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

“Everybody cannot be calm. To be calm is a luxury!”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“...in our lifetimes we have so much to survive.”
― Angie Cruz, Soledad

“Yes, I know, I have real problems. But it’s good to have people to remind us that we have survived a lot more than this.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“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

“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

“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.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Don’t forget about us. No lights are too bright to forget where you come from. Remember. Remember.”
― Angie Cruz, Dominicana

“I want to let myself die and live in dreams.”
― Angie Cruz, Soledad

“Nobody needed to know what happened between us. It felt good to keep it private. Like praying. You don’t have to announce that you pray. I don’t need no one to make me feel bad about it. José was the antídoto to some of the most poisonous years of my life. He filled the emptiness of my apartment.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“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.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“She had a mouth like a mop: picking up the dirt from all the corners.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“I may not have a chair to sit on, he often says, but I have my word.”
― Angie Cruz, Dominicana

“If a person seems inflexible, yield, then slip in sideways and get what you want.”
― Angie Cruz, Dominicana

“Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father.
The less you say, the more the people listen.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“When Ángela saw me cry, my sister said, You’re drowning in a glass of water.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Sometimes life feels very small and other times it feels very rich. And when it feels small I think it’s because I don’t let myself, you know, enjoy the life.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“She said to me, I should’ve not lost so much time being afraid of her dying. But that’s normal, I told her. It’s difficult to lose your friend. Everybody gets afraid. We should be more like the animals, she said. The animals don’t think of the future or the past; they pay attention to what is happening in the present. It is enough to sit with a person. To brush the hair. To massage the feet. To bring them what they need. We can’t fight what we can’t control. She said she missed her.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“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