“I feel the heaviness of nightmareseven though I am awake.How weary I am, how sleeplessand hopeless—there is no escapefrom the tormentof wishes.”

“No matter how invisibleI feel, I will always be wrappedin the memoryof life as a captive.—Quebrado”

“Like King Midas, I am left with nothingbut this unreasonable hopethat, somehow, my strange lifeand my lost familywill returnto normal. ”

“I feel like...the boy lost somewherebetween the torment of memoryand a few fragile shardsof hope.”

“If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.”

“That is how I think of peace and peace of mind—as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.”

“I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!”