“ I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends. Oscar Hijuelos
“ Clime, to talk about the Bible. To Clemens’s inquiry What, in your opinion, is the Bible? my father, with his effortless genius, summarized his feelings about it in a single phrase: The Bible is a boo… Oscar Hijuelos
“ The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity. Oscar Hijuelos
“ Glorious life ending. There must have been a moment when his son had gasped for air, the last time, as Jesus must. But as Jesus had risen, he wanted his son to rise up, organs and spirit and mind inta… Oscar Hijuelos
“ Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out. Oscar Hijuelos
“ Expression conveying to her, as male expressions would, the simple wish that he might connect with so pleasing a being, as if she were an angel with the power to remake a man’s life, his sense of the… Oscar Hijuelos
“ Sober, he would regard his wife with amor—the kind of amor the oldest sisters, Margarita and Isabel, knew took place at the end of the evening, when they were all supposed to be asleep and not listeni… Oscar Hijuelos
“ On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end of life. Even with the tremendous pain in his badly gutted belly he would have… Oscar Hijuelos
