"Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

"Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

"If truthful we must be, then it must be said he found everything in the universe sexually inviting. Woman. Man. Boy. Papaya. Crocheted potholder. The Milky Way. Any and all were possiblities, real or imagined."
— Sandra Cisneros (Caramelo)