Gloria

“Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolución, la de su protagonista. También de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relación amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultación, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en última instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad.”
― Javier Marías, Berta Isla

“After lunch, back at the apartment, they relaxed in comfortable armchairs. The husband got up and put on a record of Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suites. “How can you do this?” my mother asked. “Isn’t it against the law, a desecration of Shabbat?” “No,” he said firmly, “listening to Bach, even on Shabbat, couldn’t possibly be a desecration in God’s eye.”
― Rachel Biale, Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood

“and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
― Herman Melville