Reckless Serenade

“Pero supongo que hace falta vivir mucho, y lograr aprender de lo vivido, para llegar a comprender que no hay nada tan importante ni tan espléndido como el canto de una niña bajo una higuera.”
― Rosa Montero, La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

“On September 11, I went out and bought a new TV/VCR at Best Buy so I could record the news coverage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers. Trevor was on a honeymoon in Barbados, I'd later learn, but Reva was lost. Reva was gone. I watched the videotape over and over to soothe myself that day. And I continue to watch it, usually on a lonely afternoon, or any other time I doubt that life is worth living, or when I need courage, or when I am bored. Each time I see the woman leap off the seventy-eighth floor of the North Tower—one high-heeled shoe slipping off and hovering up over her, the other stuck on her foot as though it were too small, her blouse untucked, hair flailing, limbs stiff as she plummets down, one arm raised, like a dive into a summer lake—I am overcome by awe, not because she looks like Reva, and I think it's her, almost exactly her, and not because Reva and I had been friends, or because I'll never see her again, but because she is beautiful. There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Me dijeron:

— O te subes al carro

o tendrás que empujarlo.

Ni me subí ni lo empujé.

Me senté en la cuneta

y alrededor de mí,

a su debido tiempo,

brotaron las amapolas.”
― Gloria Fuertes, Mujer de verso en pecho

“La gente triste no tiene piedad.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego