How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water Quotes

“Yes, I was lonely, but I knew then and I know now: I did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes. You know what I'm saying?”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Cara, we must not wait to live the life we want. Find a way to be present with the people you love.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Sometimes we need help to not drown in a glass of water.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution to my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“She said, Don’t worry about me. I’ve done everything I’ve ever wanted to do. Cara, we must not wait to live the life we want. Find a way to be present with the people you love.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Yes, I know, I have real problems. But it’s good to have people to remind us that we have survived a lot more than this.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Everybody cannot be calm. To be calm is a luxury!”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“I have never seen before was in front of the place for the hamburgers. You know the place — if you eat one, it’s OK, but if you eat two, you shit in your panties? Oh, you know it? You like it? Ay. Every time, I get a stomachache.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Nobody needed to know what happened between us. It felt good to keep it private. Like praying. You don’t have to announce that you pray. I don’t need no one to make me feel bad about it. José was the antídoto to some of the most poisonous years of my life. He filled the emptiness of my apartment.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“did it because I wanted to change my life. That’s what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we’re forced to buy new shoes.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Sometimes life feels very small and other times it feels very rich. And when it feels small I think it’s because I don’t let myself, you know, enjoy the life.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“you try to fix something that somebody do not want to fix they will hate you for it. To offer help is OK. To push, no.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“When Ángela saw me cry, my sister said, You’re drowning in a glass of water.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“That’s what therapists make you do. They make you spit on your mother. Everything is the mother’s fault.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Why? You know why? Because I have an accent. I look dominicana. Do you feel American? Yes. Interesting. I don’t know, I think to get the papers is like marrying someone who has no feelings for me. But also sometimes getting married has benefits.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“She said to me, I should’ve not lost so much time being afraid of her dying. But that’s normal, I told her. It’s difficult to lose your friend. Everybody gets afraid. We should be more like the animals, she said. The animals don’t think of the future or the past; they pay attention to what is happening in the present. It is enough to sit with a person. To brush the hair. To massage the feet. To bring them what they need. We can’t fight what we can’t control. She said she missed her.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father.
The less you say, the more the people listen.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“She had a mouth like a mop: picking up the dirt from all the corners.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Desahogar: to undrown, to cry until you don’t need to cry no more.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“know I was born with sugar in my pockets.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“How could mothers be happy when their children suffer? Impossible.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Then I saw a photo of Adonis on Lulú's wall, and I became a fountain.
Lulú gave me a box of Kleenex. She turned on the radio. She turned on the stove to make me dinner and told me that I can stay there as long as I needed, para desahogarme.
You have never heard of that word? You said you're dominicana. You don't understand Spanish? Oh, just a little. OK. Desahogar: to undrown, to cry until you don't need to cry no more.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution to my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do it.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“In the end, I got the best of that man. I never got the bad; only the sweet. We took good care of each other for many years.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water