76 quotes found
“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
“Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.”
“I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn't think it's cursed?”
“I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
“Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.”
“...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...”
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
“Thats life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like its nothing. If you ask me I dont think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Thats ...”
“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
“Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.”
“A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.”
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even ...”
“You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? Theres this idea that monsters dont have reflections in a mirror. And what Ive always thought isnt that monsters d...”
“We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter what truths these languages might be carrying. If you talk with a harsh, urbanized accent and you ...”
“But I believe that, once the shock settles, faith and energy will return. Because lets be real: we always knew this shit wasnt going to be easy. Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power ...”
“We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I d...”
“In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
“He whistles. Que viva Colombia. Hands you back the Book. You really should write the cheater's guide to love.You think?I do. It takes a while. You see the tall girl. You go to more doctors. You cel...”
“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still...”
“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
“Before we even swung onto 516 Nilda was in my brother's lap and he had his hand so far up her skirt it looked like he was performing a surgical procedure. When we were getting off the bus Rafa pull...”
“A month later the law student leaves you for one of her classmates, tells you that it was great but she has to start being realistic. . . . .Later you see her with said classmate on the Yard. He's ...”
