""Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.""
— Ana Castillo (Loverboys: Stories)

""Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!""
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition)

""Siempre es más interesante vivir que escribir.""
— Bernardo Vega (Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York)

"Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor."
— Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian)

"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
— Gabriel García Márquez

""Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.""
— Gabriel García Márquez

"I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings."
— Jeanette Winterson

""In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.""
— Pablo Neruda (Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems)

"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
— Jean-Paul Sartre