Magicalrealism Quotes

“The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“The bank gods paid a visit after sunset, towering and stiff, ponderously regal and quasiparental in the gray twilight.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.”
― Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir

“I remember one woman making paper flowers to sell, with different herbs . . . She made them so fast, and so many . . . that as I watched, her first few zinnias became quickly enough a few hundred, and grew in their happiness to the size of sunflowers. The sunflowers themselves grew to the size of pumpkins, the snapdragons grew ominous, and the rosemary fragrant.”
― Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir

“When I woke up, Carl was standing over me, his hand lightly resting on his cheek, like I was abstract art, like he saw something that interested him but he wasn’t sure what it meant, like he thought I was something a child could have made.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“I’m standing with other parents on the school playground. A misery of humans, huddled, hunched, and wet.”
― Maria P Frino, Edward's Cat: The Rise of the Kittens. And a Dog.

“Every stem has its story. Behind each stem, a rhythm grows”
― Penelope Elowen, Let The Petals Fall: A novel of grief, love, and the Garden that changed everything