Quotes by Justin Torres

“This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family.”

“After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the Torres and Rollin families. We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

“After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss. We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

“After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the... families,”

“It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

“This is obviously a devastating loss for the Torres and Rollin families. We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

“I am saddened to have to report that, following emergency surgery that we had hoped would correct a sudden deterioration in her condition, my niece Susan Ann Catherine Torres has passed away after only five short weeks with us,”

“[A spokeswoman at St. Ritas Church in Alexandria said parishioners were told of the childs death during the morning Mass.] After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the Torres and Rollin families, ... We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

“After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss, ... We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

“After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss ... . ... It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.”

All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.

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.

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.