Alejandro Teruel

“Nuestra idea de la lectura sigue siendo romántica y moderna. Por algunos libros sentimos casi lo mismo que sentimos por la infancia. Pero también, hemos aprendido a leer de manera práctica: tomar, usar y desechar. Entendemos que poco perdura. Nuestra identificación nace de una idea de éxtasis, epifania, shock, revelación. Incluso lo que no perdura a veces pasa por esto.”
― Ricardo Ramírez Requena

“No olvides que el escritor es el único animal de rapiña que se alimenta de sus entrañas.

(Don´t forget that writers are the only predators who feed on their own entrails).”
― Eduardo Liendo

“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,” he says, but “Flaubert’s objectivity is charged with irritability and Tolstoy’s with affection. For Flaubert everyone and everything is somehow at fault. For Tolstoy everyone and everything has a saving grace.”

“By loving people without cause, he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.” It would be hard to find a more succinct description of the chief work of the Holy Spirit in the human heart.”
― Lionel Trilling