“I don't want to be loved despite my history: I want absolution, someone to observe my fitting-into and growing-out-of, someone to watch my spine make the mannequin come to life.” — Lisa Marie Basile Copy Share Image
“I don’t know when I started to realize that my country’s past was incomprehensible and obscure to me, a real shadowy terrain, nor can I remember the precise moment when all that i’d believed so trustworthy and predictable—the place I’d… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
