Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Cristina Garcia

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Cristina Garcia.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Cristina García is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. Her first novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. A Handbook to Luck (2007) follows three children from Cuba, over twenty-six years through sacrifices and forced exiles.

American - Novelist | Born: July 4, 1958

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Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.

Cristina Garcia

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

Cristina Garcia

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Cristina Garcia

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.

Cristina Garcia

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

Cristina Garcia

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Cristina Garcia

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