Morena

“Sadly it seems the North Americans do not understand that. To them, we know nothing and have nothing--nothing worth knowing or having, as far as they are concerned. I have heard them say that the work they are planning will bring things like progress and civilization and modernity to this place--I am sure you have heard those words as well--as if the tools we have already created, the buildings we have already constructed, the land we have already cultivated, the society we have already organized is not, somehow progress or civilization or modernity, but outside of those things. As if we are nothing more than primitive people with a few primitive huts that can be so easily moved.”
― Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

“Eu me considerava horrível e queria ser cada vez mais horrível. Já havia um tempo que, antes de ir para a escola, eu me empenhava diante do espelho para me vestir e me pentear como uma louca. Queria que as pessoas ficassem de má vontade do meu lado, exatamente como eu tentava mostrar que me sentia na companhia delas.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“They’re scared. They’re afraid we won’t be worthy of them.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“Ya te acordás como hice una escuela arriba, cuántos chicos fueron. (...) Ya supiste cuando los diarios dijeron que yo era enemigo de la colectividad. Ya me viste echado del puesto, ya viste la pileta vacía, la escuela vacía. Ya viste cuando nadie me saludaba en este pueblo. Te digo, Vega, que hay que tener paciencia en la mala.”
― Sara Gallardo, Eisejuaz