Death Quote by Luis Alberto Urrea

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here,"…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Writers write without support.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“He couldn't believe she was real. She was like some dream, some story old men told youngsters. She made a fool out of him…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

— Luis Alberto Urrea