iratxe > Recent Status Updates

«Women’s rights have not yet achieved parity with “human rights”; that is, the rights men claim and extend to themselves. Most significant of all, whether through the mass media or through corporate dictatorship of what we wear, eat, read, believe and think, men continue to own and control the ultimate right of all, the right to define.»

«Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time.»

«The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection»

«Dex put their hands in their pockets. "Are you afraid of that?" they asked. "Of death?"
"Of course," Mosscap said. "All conscious things are. Why clse do snakes bite? Why do birds ly away? But that's part of the lesson, too, I think. Ir's very odd, isn't it? The thing every being fears most is the only thing that's for certain? It seems almost cruel, to have that so...»

«If you ask six different monks the question of which godly domain robot consciousness belongs to, you'll get seven different answers.»

«Names are like selkie-skins, often carelessly attended, left in view of those who would misuse them. Utilized correctly though, they can kill a man, can turn a girl to a thing of teeth and dead eyes, an appetite to devour worlds; can make infernos of maidens, phoenixes of bones who have been asleep for so long they've forgotten the shape of rage.
Names have so much power.»

«"What is a building without doors, Maritza?" Rose House asked her, blandly inquisitive. "Have you opinions?"
A prison, Maritza thought, and went back to her car.»

«I'm a piece of architecture, Detective, How should I know how humans are like to die?»

"«¿Por qué se dio la vuelta Orfeo?»
La respuesta se extiende por ríos de tinta, por océanos de historias y conversaciones infinitas. Una pregunta para la humanidad, por la humanidad, sobre la humanidad."

«After all, one cannot be forced into sacrifice. One must choose it.»

«Cuando se impugna con más fuerza el modelo turístico, su viabilidad ecológica e incluso el sentido del viaje, no podía quitarme de la cabeza estas dos preguntas: ¿qué dicen estos souvenires de nosotros? y ¿quién trabaja cuando estamos de vacaciones?»

«"We are the stars," he answers, as though it is the most obvious of facts afloat in a sea of metaphors and misdirections. "We are all star dust and stories."»

«It’s never how we want it, clear-cut and shining, a perfect moral center leading us all back home. The Seep did love us, and it wanted to help us to create a perfect world. And this destroyed life as we knew it.»

«"Do you know it?" Zachary asks.
"No, each one's different. They have similar elements, though. All Stories do, no matter what form they take. Something was, and then something changed. Change is what a story is, after all."»

«The body holds the body.
The arms hold the spear.
And the spear cuts through water.»