The Price of Paradise

by Susana López Rubio

“The moral is that the powerful win. They always win. But it cost them, goddamn it. It cost them! The only thing poor bastards like us have left is the comfort of knowing we stood up to them.”

“Life has brought us this final gift as a reward for surviving everything without surrender.” “That’s funny. That’s precisely what you told me when we met, that I’m not the sort who gives up easily.”