Brenda Lozano > Quotes

“Change. Unlearning yourself is more important than knowing yourself.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Cambiar. Desconocerse es más importante que conocerse.”
― Brenda Lozano

“Grandpa Cosme used to call me Pájaro but not because I walked like I had feathers, he called me that because I have wings where other people have regrets and fears and they can’t stand up from the weight of everything their families expect from them,”
― Brenda Lozano, Witches

“Don't be alarmed if this isn't going anywhere. Don't expect theories, reliable facts or conclusions. Don't take any of this too seriously. That's what universities are for, and theses, and academic studies. Personally, I like cafés, bars and living rooms. Not to mention comfortable cushions. So nice and cosy.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“There are people who fear us because they don't understand what we do. I am not a witch or a fortune-teller or a healer like the others, God knows that, the herbs and the mushrooms give me great powers for reflection because that is the greatest power we have on this earth, reflection is how we heal ourselves and how we can fix any problem or heartbreak, and so with herbs and with the mushroom Children I look inside the sick one, I see the root of their physical sickness or the suffering buried in their soul and that is something the sages of medicine can't do, people are afraid of us because they don't know how we do it, but this is something that comes to us from our ancestors, it is as old as the land itself.”
― Brenda Lozano, Witches

“I wonder what someone's life would be like if they'd never reached, if they'd never seen, if they couldn't imagine their own depths. Those depths where only pain can take you.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Cuidado: hago preguntas falsas, como plantas de tela. No busco respuestas, me gustan más las preguntas.”
― Brenda Lozano

“comprendo al mar, lo mueve todo por llegar a donde quiere.”
― Brenda Lozano, Soñar como sueñan los árboles

“Todo comienza cuando algo más ya comenzó. Mi nombre y mi historia no empiezan con mi nacimiento. Una historia no se acaba con la muerte ni con la despedida. Quedan los otros, los de antes, los que siguen, los de ahora.”
― Brenda Lozano

“Speaking of Kafka, have I told you he’s one of the authors I read for self-improvement? Today I underlined this phrase, which I could repeat every morning: ‘He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.’ In fact, the genre people call self-help literature sounds tautological to me; I read all literature as self-help.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Dwarf things. Small things. Little things in relation to the norm. Insignificant things. Things with different dimensions. Curiously, the stories I like the most are made up of trivialities. Details. Trifles. These days, people look to what's big. The big picture, big sales figures, success. Bright lights, interviews, breaking news. Whatever's famous. Importance judged by fame. Maybe small things are subversive. Living on a modest scale compared to the norm. Maybe the dwarf is the hero of our time.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Childhood is so uncertain, so distant. It's almost like childhood is the origin of fiction: describing any past event over and over to see how far away you are getting from reality.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Miedo de hacer dos veces lo mismo.
Miedo de hacer dos veces lo mismo.”
― Brenda Lozano, Todo nada

“No saber dónde están los que queremos es no saber dónde está uno.”
― Brenda Lozano, Todo nada

“If I were a sound I could be independent from reality. If I were music I could travel further.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Maybe small things are subversive.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Entre más inútil una cosa, mayor su independencia con la realidad.”
― Brenda Lozano

“It’s eight-thirty a.m. I read the new granola packet. It’s horrible, Jonás, a woman telling her story, in the first person, all about why she started making granola at home. The brand is named after her son, who disappeared in this pointless so-called War. A mother trying to raise money, through homemade granola, to fund a private investigation. I felt powerless, I lost my appetite. What the fuck is happening here? It’s”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Me quedó una cicatriz. Me parece que contar es un modo de verbalizar una cicatriz. Como no todos los golpes ni todas las caídas dejan marcas, ahí están las palabras, listas para combinarse de distintos modos, en cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento, ante cualquier caída, por grave o leve que sea.”
― Brenda Lozano

“En esta cafetería veo una fotografía enmarcada. No sé si esa persona está viva o muerta. La incertidumbre de las fotografías enmarcadas. Los marcos son como los nombres: las personas pueden estar vivas o muertas, pero en ese momento están en la fotografía, ese gerundio. Ese nombre que se distiende, ese presente continuo, ese marco, esas letras estáticas que son nuestro nombre. Desconcertantemente inmortal.”
― Brenda Lozano

“An ideal notebook should be waterproof, like the books children read in the bath. You can’t have a notebook getting wet as you wash, like Ulises Lima’s books do when he reads in the shower. An ideal notebook should be able to go underwater. Whether it floats like a rubber duck or swims in the deep like a whale, it needs to be waterproof.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Today a dwarf smiled at me.

The transformation happened to this story.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“[...] ahí en una velada vi cuando un desgraciado montó a mi hermana Francisca por las fuerzas y hasta la fecha le digo que yo pude haber matado a ese desgraciado con un machete, porque la furia que queda no serena las memorias.”
― Brenda Lozano, Brujas

“Or our diminutive president, who always appears in cartoons in a suit three sizes too big.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Nadie quiere verse a sí mismo.
Por eso, y por fortuna, existe el otro.”
― Brenda Lozano, Todo nada

“The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. TAO TE CHING”
― Brenda Lozano, Witches

“acaso compartir un dolor hondo con alguien, al contrario de jerarquizar, sobre todo, hermana.”
― Brenda Lozano, Soñar como sueñan los árboles

“Si él con su sombra quería hacer la obscuridad de mi casa, yo tenía que saludarlo como el sol sale todos los días aunque las guerras sigan en la tierra.”
― Brenda Lozano, Brujas

“...the present is also, as its name suggests, a gift. It doesn't suggest longing or loss. It's just a present, a gift, a time with no strings attached which is totally ours, to use however we want, however we please. There are days when I find the future overwhelming, with all the bright lights and commotion.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all blows or falls leave marks, the words are there, ready to be put together in different ways, anywhere, anytime, in response to any fall, however serious or slight.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop