Sharai

“The conversation, once everyone sat for dinner, was painstaking, fifteen people desperately waiting their turn to insert an opinion, nobody concerned with what anybody else thought about anything. Perhaps every conversation played out like this, and it was only now, aware of every move, every reaction, that Carmen realized it was a miracle human beings learned anything about each other at all.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“She knew a woman could learn to resent this post, but she would instead find a hundred books to read”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“She feared her husband more than any president or his men.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt

“What kind of fear is credible? There are so many kinds of fear.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt