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Top 25 Cristina Henriquez Quotes (2025 Update)

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “We’re the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they’ve been told they’re supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we’re not that bad, maybe even that we’re a lot like them. And who would they hate then?”

2. “We’re the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they’ve been told they’re supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we’re not that bad, maybe even that we’re a lot like them. And who would they hate then?”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people.”

3. “Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”

4. “Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “We left a lot of things behind – not only physical objects, but our friends and of course our families, pieces of ourselves – all for the chance to see that light in Maribel’s eyes. It’s been difficult, yes, but I would do it all again. People do what they have to do 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.”

6. “We left a lot of things behind – not only physical objects, but our friends and of course our families, pieces of ourselves – all for the chance to see that light in Maribel’s eyes. It’s been difficult, yes, but I would do it all again. People do what they have to do 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.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Finding is for things that are lost. You don’t need to find me, Mayor.”

7. “Finding is for things that are lost. You don’t need to find me, Mayor.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.”

8. “I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Contigo la milpa es rancho y el atole champurrado.”

9. “Contigo la milpa es rancho y el atole champurrado.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “When someone dies, it doesn’t leave a hole, and that’s the agony.”

10. “When someone dies, it doesn’t leave a hole, and that’s the agony.”

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Life got its tentacles around you, its hooks into your heart, and suddenly you come awake as if for the first time, and you are standing in a part of the town where the air is sweet – your face flushed, your chest thumping, your stomach a planet, your heart a planet, your every organ a separate planet, all of it of a piece though the pieces turn separately, O silent indications of the inevitable, as among the natural restraints of winter and good sense, life blows you apart in her arms.”

11. “Life got its tentacles around you, its hooks into your heart, and suddenly you come awake as if for the first time, and you are standing in a part of the town where the air is sweet – your face flushed, your chest thumping, your stomach a planet, your heart a planet, your every organ a separate planet, all of it of a piece though the pieces turn separately, O silent indications of the inevitable, as among the natural restraints of winter and good sense, life blows you apart in her arms.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. Inside each of us, I was pretty sure, was a place for the other. Nothing that had happened and nothing that would ever happen would make that less true.”

12. “We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. Inside each of us, I was pretty sure, was a place for the other. Nothing that had happened and nothing that would ever happen would make that less true.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “People say things all the time with the best of intentions but it’s so easy not believe the words that come out of your own mouth.”

16. “People say things all the time with the best of intentions but it’s so easy not believe the words that come out of your own mouth.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they’d created.”

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

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “You could trace it back infinitely. All these different veins, but who knew which one led to the heart?”

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

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing:.”

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

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “You have to believe that you’re entitled to happiness.”

20. “You have to believe that you’re entitled to happiness.”

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “And then again, maybe people and things are the same as emotions: Even when you can’t see them or feel them or be with them, and even when they have died and even before they are born, they still exist somewhere. Far away or close, they’re always somewhere. Maybe nothing in the world is truly lost, I think.”

21. “And then again, maybe people and things are the same as emotions: Even when you can’t see them or feel them or be with them, and even when they have died and even before they are born, they still exist somewhere. Far away or close, they’re always somewhere. Maybe nothing in the world is truly lost, I think.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Armando’s not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.”

22. “Armando’s not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.”

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.”

23. “Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.”

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.”

24. “And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.”

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Cristina Henriquez Quote: “It was as if, when her father spoke, her mother looked at him and saw a little goldfish, popping open his mouth over and over again but making no sound. And when her mother spoke, her father looked and saw a piranha doing the same thing.”

25. “It was as if, when her father spoke, her mother looked at him and saw a little goldfish, popping open his mouth over and over again but making no sound. And when her mother spoke, her father looked and saw a piranha doing the same thing.”

— Cristina Henriquez

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