Marcus Rodriguez

“What did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do: it brought forth a round, human tear. It made them cry. At last they could cry again. To cry properly, without restraint, to cry like mad. The tears flowed and washed everything away. The rain came. The dew. Oskar has a vision of floodgates opening. Of dams bursting in the spring floods. What is the name of that river that overflows every spring and the government does nothing to stop it?”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“You shouldn't ask me whether I like him or not. The way you mean it, I don't suppose I like anybody.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It was so much easier to cry in company. It gave you a real sense of brotherhood in sorrow when to the right and left of you and in the gallery overhead your fellow students were all crying their hearts out.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.”
― Dorothy Baker