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“Éste es el embate inevitable: nos hacemos adultos cuando mueren nuestros padres. No importa la edad que tengamos, no importa la relación que hayamos tenido con ellos, no importa la causa de la muerte. Cuando ellos no están el cielo se convierte en un Saturno amenazante que ha devorado la primera línea de sus hijos y que luego vendrá por nosotros. Comprenderlo es lapidario y, al mismo tiempo, profundamente esclarecedor, acaso la única vía para cosechar el fruto de la perspectiva.”
― La cabeza de mi padre
― La cabeza de mi padre
“Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your return. We love you more than we have loved life. After your dear brother name your first son. Live here if you like, but if you sell it take no less than one hundred thousand dollars. ~Bawbaw”
― House of Sand and Fog
― House of Sand and Fog
“this I know of life’s difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.”
― House of Sand and Fog
― House of Sand and Fog
“No hay familia sin herida. Del deseo y la capacidad de traicionar esa herida para luego reconciliarnos con ella es que nos volvemos individuos nuevos.”
― La cabeza de mi padre
― La cabeza de mi padre
“Ellen came out of the nursery from checking on Grace and said, “I love her so much it’s just…” “Excruciating,” supplied her mother. “I know. It doesn’t really get any better. You just learn to live with it.”
― The Hypnotist's Love Story
― The Hypnotist's Love Story
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