Rafa Araujo > Rafa's Quotes

“Esa es la desventaja de la libertad: cuando eres completamente libre, también estás completamente solo.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“No puedo cambiar de dónde vengo ni por lo que he pasado, así que, ¿por qué debería avergonzarme de lo que me hace yo? Sería como avergonzarme de mí misma.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Ahora somos conscientes de que comprar animales salvajes o exóticos solo favorece a que se siga traficando con ellos”
― Anthony Bourke, A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick

“My grandpappy say when we die, we get our wings back, the ones white folk cut off when we come here. Maybe I’ll fly and meet my mama. Or all the way back to Africy.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth bed down, searching for his face. But with no eyes, he can't see. Lie, he sneaky. He snatch up Truth's face and run off! Zip! Now Lie go around wearing Truth's face, fooling everybody he meet.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“Reason and law don’t mean much when white folk want their way.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout