Carolina

“Escribir es retener, aprisionar, comprimir. Lo que se escapa.”
― Mariana Sández, Una casa llena de gente

“To be alive: not just the carcass /
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?”
― Gregory Orr

“Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work.”
― María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

“Memory must have a good PR agent, because in reality, as an instrument of optical precision, it seems to me little better than a fairground kaleidoscope. To reconstruct an experience on the basis of images stored in our brains at times borders on hallucination. We do not recover the past, we re-create it: an act of dramaturgy if ever there was one. Memory edits things, colors them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever’s needed to make the story work.”
― María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady