“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence. She stood out among so many because she, naturally, did not submit to any training, to any use, or to any purpose. All of us had submitted and that submission had -- through trials, failures, successes -- reduced us. Only Lila, nothing and no one seemed to reduce her. (p. 403)”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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