Sixto Ortiz

“Yo me atreví. Esa es la escuálida línea que nos separa.”
― Josué Montijo, El Killer

“Pienso en todos mis vecinos, que trabajan en Puerto Rico pero guardan lo mejor para cuando estén aquí. En los cuentos que hacen, repitiendo una y otra vez lo felices que fueron. De acá salieron para ser felices y acá quieren regresar para que sepa que ya lo son. Pienso en los cientos de cajas llenas de cosas que no queremos y que enviamos para "esa gente". En la insistencia boricua de que somos mejores que ellos. Vil alivio para nuestra mediocridad.”
― Luis Negrón, Los tres golpes

“Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

“Like Nazis at a Ku Klux Klan rally, they were comfortable ideologically, but not in terms of corporate culture.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout