"My name is Cara Romero, and I came to this country because my husband wanted to kill me. Don't look so shocked. You'r…"

"I yelled. But who could hear me? How many people have died this way? (p15)"

"It's always like that: just when I think I don't give a shit about what my family thinks, they find a way to drag me …"

"What are we teaching our daughters or sisters or cousins if we always pretend that we don’t need anybody? The truth i…"

"I do think reading is an intimate conversation we can have with ourselves and each other. Even if we don’t explicitly…"

"Art is about pushing at the edges, and we’re privileged, however uncomfortable and challenging it may be, to have the…"

"Everything is alive around you (in Callaloo Summer 2007)"

"I don't want to write the war in my next novel. I want to imagine peace...Maybe it's in code-switching that we can in…"

"I know that I should be free to write any which way I want-tone, story, etc.-because if not, we're lying to ourselves…"

"Thinking about it, sometimes I watch the news and say, "¿What kind of world do we live in? ¿Who are these people maki…"