I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can’t change it and I like it.
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman’s back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.