Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

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.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

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.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

Your assignment will always be a forerunner to others’ assignments. Also, others’ assignments will always be forerunners to yours.

It's good to know that challenges are designed to make me and not to break me.

Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away.

If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don't, you don't

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.