Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

“One need not put up with unpleasant things. There are remedies after all.”

“I had to train myself to write under any circumstances or I would never write again.”

“You are a product of your class, your religious beliefs, your political beliefs, etc. So I don't cringe, I stand by the stories.”

“Home is not just a place — it's a story we carry in our bones.”

“The journal records the narrative now. And the tales retrieve the past.”

“Writing is an effort to make sense of life.”