Come Together, Fall Apart Quotes

“And then again, maybe people and things are the same as emotions: Even when you can't see them or feel them or be with them, and even when they have died and even before they are born, they still exist somewhere. Far away or close, they're always somewhere. Maybe nothing in the world is truly lost, I think.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart

“It was as if, when her father spoke, her mother looked at him and saw a little goldfish, popping open his mouth over and over again but making no sound. And when her mother spoke, her father looked and saw a piranha doing the same thing.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart

“ I saw us from above, from the sky, two flecks of being connected at the edge of the wide, pale ocean, lost to everything but each other.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart

“Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart

“People say things all the time with the best of intentions but it's so easy not believe the words that come out of your own mouth.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart

“And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart

“Armando's not a pork chop, I say. She shrugs. At least a pork chop would feed you.”
― Cristina Henriquez, Come Together, Fall Apart