Sharai

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

“We are more than we think we are. There was always more.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt: A Novel

“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

“That there are no real rules that govern why some are born in turmoil and others never know a single day in which the next seems an ill-considered bet. It’s all lottery, Ana, all chance. It’s the flick of a coin, and we are born.”
― Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt