Life shifting, as life does
Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter.
“Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.”
“Tomas led a young woman by the hand and walked up into the foothills. Millian, the miner from Rosario, had introduced her to the patron, already buying points for himself. He was no fool. And the g...”
“Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried”
“Our power comes from the earth”
“I am in the earth and the earth is in me”
“They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.”
“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for tr...”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”