Gabriel Urza > Quotes

“I remember a saying I heard once, how the Basque Country's history can be divided in half by the Civil War, and it occurs to me that perhaps that bullet has never stopped moving through our town. That it is still traveling through Muriga, striking one of us down every now and again.”
― Gabriel Urza, All That Followed

“He had been asking me for the Basque translations of peculiar words like these since the first day we met. He spoke Euskera well, but his vocabulary had holes in it, lacking, for example, a whole range of words that dealt with pain or toil, as if his family home where he had learned his Basque was free entirely of grief, or tenderness, or aching.”
― Gabriel Urza, All That Followed

“Gezurra esan nuen etxean; ni baino lehenago kalean.

I told a lie at home and it was in the street before me.

-- Basque Proverb”
― Gabriel Urza, All That Followed