“I will never understand the whole worldor evenone country.All I can dois try to understandthe truth and liesin the simplest choicesI faceevery day.”

“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!”

“I have spent all my years accepting sad truths.—Quebrado”

“Joy and truth both have a wayof peeking through any dark curtain.”

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

“The old life is gone, my days are new,but time is still a mysteryof wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance. " —Rosa”

“I still think of myselfas a broken place, a drifting islewith no home.—Quebrado”