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“ I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones. ”

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She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.

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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

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