Alfred Cedeno > Quotes

“The plan was simple: find the mountain, climb it, wait for God to speak audibly to us, and ask God to make Sid give Rey’s soul back.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“But everyone had a scar—except Rey.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“On a sunny, but still too cool Monday in May, Rey started his final week at the massive all boys Catholic high school by strutting into the main entrance. He surveyed his kingdom of backpacks and high fives. He was pleased.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“He longed for beauty and passion, yet all he could see were apartment buildings, bungalows, strip malls, and gas stations.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“He almost envied the inanimate objects: what would it be like to wait and wait stationary like that until it was time for such a specific purpose?”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“All the while, I was trying to find meaning in a metal world.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“Poetry brought hope. The violence, the fear, the ennui all were cured in the trochaic, the iambic, and the sublime.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“The problem that arose at this particular juncture was that Rey did not have a poem to perform. He was, after all, a prophet on a singular journey to restore peace and justice and beauty to the city. Things like composition and revision might only hinder the voice of God.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“Among other absurdities, the feature stated, “Rey is the second coming of James Joyce. He’s the Puerto Rican Proust, whose verse is only overshadowed by the poetry of his 400 meter dash.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“Dear Rebecca, Sid Cutler has stopped my heart three times. I always hoped he’d finish the job. Maybe that isn’t how I should start a letter, but after being polite and cautious to you for a lifetime, I’m ready to tell you the truth.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“In the middle of the room, in the middle of the year, he lay prostrate and divined that the Almighty Creator of the Universe ought to conquer his foes in today’s verse competition by speaking audibly into his ears a poem so profound that the room would fall silent in awe, then roar in celebration.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“The most famous writer in history couldn’t use Standard English spelling or use punctuation if his life depended on it, which he claims it once did in Tijuana.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“Yet among all of the revelry, Rey felt both empty without the blue-eyed girl and saddened for her that she missed out on the gift that was Rey Pescador.”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador

“Holding the microphone like he was the voice box of the Creator of All Things, he shouted, “We’re gonna try something that my boy Icarus did a few years back. Are you all ready for some sunshine?”
― Alfred Cedeno, The Resurrection of Rey Pescador