Roel Wijte

“Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Las olas, anchas y planas, se sucedían monótonas una tras otra. En las cercanías, lo que parecía un castillo y un promontorio con villas majestuosas; al frente, un océano casi tan grande como mi desazón. Me senté en la arena a contemplarlo y, con la vista concentrada en el vaivén de la espuma, perdí la noción del tiempo y me fui dejando llevar. Cada ola trajo consigo un recuerdo, una estampa del pasado: memorias de la joven que un día fui, de mis logros y temores, de los amigos que dejé atrás en algún lugar del tiempo; escenas de otras tierras, de otras voces. Y sobre todo, el mar me trajo aquella mañana sensaciones olvidadas entre los pliegues de la memoria: la caricia de una mano querida, la firmeza de un brazo amigo, la alegría de lo compartido y el anhelo de lo deseado.”
― María Dueñas, The Time in Between

“¡Travestis del Parque! ¡Vengan! ¡Vengan que he encontrado algo!”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls