Erin Sullivan

“He wanted to exude authority and power, but these were qualities he did not have. They were, as it happened, the very air that Mami breathed.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“What we are certain of is the overwhelming message: in all of his daughters’ dreams, Nono expressly asked for his body to be exhumed. We are to unearth Nono’s remains.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras , The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“I realized only later that they were my first loves, these earthbound, dusty women, my first audiences and inspiration. Back then, even amid political violence and deprivation, hopes dashed over and over again, in the market, everything seemed so simple, so near, beyond the tentacles of the mighty who would want to crush us: a women's world with other rules.”
― Myriam J. A. Chancy, What Storm, What Thunder

“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceded that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds