Hispanic Literature Quotes

“Science has eliminated distance.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“A good writer should be able to communicate to the reader, 'I know your life. I know what you have truly experienced. It’s not right or wrong. It’s survival. It’s making mistakes, and trying to redeem yourself. It’s imperfections, and trying to make yourself better. It’s outrages, and crimes, and insults, which often are not righted, which you have to fix yourself, in your own mind, in your own heart, so that you are not poisoned'.”
― Sergio Troncoso, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

“At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.”
― Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust

“You cross a border because you are searching, because you want more, because you want to match where you are with who you are, because you want to test your place. Maybe because you want to expand your sense of place. You are searching for something that may as yet be indefinable. A border crosser questions the very idea of home.”
― Sergio Troncoso, Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds

“Lend a mano, be humano.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“My science is you, my art is you,
La mañana de mi mente eres tú.
Mi casa tú, mi cielo tú,
La verdad de mi vida eres tú.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Hubiera sido mejor echarle la culpa a la poesía, pero habría sido mentira porque ahí están esos poemas que acababa de leer, poemas que demuestran que la poesía si sirve para algo, que las palabras duelen, vibran, curan, consuelan, repercuten, permanecen.”
― alejandro zambra alia trabucco zeran