"It's the story of a block that was disappearing. Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Nueva York, en un barrio …"

""El Sueñito." Pop's little dream."

"Abuela Claudia never had kids, so she adopted the whole block as her own. Adopted our sueñitos too."

"You hear that? The voices of the gods."

"It's creepy quiet. Usually, the One Train's up there, screeching."

"Usnavi, I'm the girl who paints nails. There's plenty like me, here, and over there."

"Maybe Stanford isn't a way out. Maybe it's a way back. Like Abuela always used to say, asserting our dignity in small…"

"Let me just listen to my block."

"[sings] I'm making moves. I'm making deals. But guess what? [Usnavi: What?] You still ain't got no skills."

"[Iris: What does sueñito mean?] Sueñito? It means little dream."