“Zombie and guns—what could be better?”

“Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.”

“We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”

“This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about his own Paps, how he beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.”

“What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.”

“El amor es el sentimiento mas puro y todo lo que necesitas es sentirlo inmensamente dentro de ti. Amar, amar es la clave de todo. Amar a todos tus semejantes, aun a quienes consideras tus enemigos. Solo así se transformarán, aunque ahora no amen a e ni se amen a si mismos. Amar es la única solución. Recuérdalo.”

“i aint the sharpest knife in the drawer , but i know enough to know that if your gonna be dumb you have to be tuff... i”