Vanessa In The Heights Quotes

VANESSA, FORGET ABOUT WHAT COULDA BEEN. DANCE WITH ME, ONE LAST NIGHT, IN THE HOOD AGAIN.

SONNY Uh, my cousin over there with his tongue hanging out, has been meaning to ask you … VANESSA Yes? SONNY What a lady such as yourself might be doing tonight? VANESSA Does your cousin dance? SONNY Like a drunk Chita Rivera.

Sitting under a tree, I studied my options. The fall flowers were in full bloom: verbena, goldenrod, chrysanthemum, and a late-blooming rose. The carefully tended city beds around the park held layers of textured evergreen but little color. I set to work, considering height, density, texture, and layers of scent, removing touch-damaged petals with careful pinches. When I had finished, spiraling white mums emerged from a cushion of snow-colored verbena, and clusters of pale climbing roses circled and dripped over the edge of a tightly wrapped nosegay. I removed every thorn. The bouquet was white as a wedding and spoke of prayers, truth, and an unacquainted heart.

When my hunger grew to the point of distraction, I climbed onto buses and rode to the Marina, Fillmore Street, or Pacific Heights. I toured high-end delis, lingering at polished marble countertops and sampling an olive, a slice of Canadian bacon, or a sliver of Havarti. I asked the questions Elizabeth would have asked: which olive oils are unfiltered; exactly how "fresh" was the albacore, the salmon, the sole; how sweet were the season's first blood oranges?

DANIELA (To GRAFFITI PETE.) Here. It’s called a broom. (To VANESSA.) It’s the Fourth of July, show some fucking spirit! (Neighbors reluctantly clean.)

I’M RUNNIN’ TO MAKE IT HOME AND HOME’S WHAT VANESSA’S RUNNIN’ AWAY FROM! I’M RUNNIN’ TO MAKE IT HOME AND HOME’S WHAT VANESSA’S RUNNIN’ AWAY FROM

(USNAVI grabs VANESSA from CLUB GUY and dances with her. CLUB GUY is pissed.