Gabriella > Gabriella's Quotes

“Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illusions of safety.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

“Why did life put so much inside a woman and then keep her confined to smallness?”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

“She hadn’t known air could taste like this, so wide, so open. Her body a welcome. Skin awake. The world was more than she had known, even if only for this instant, even if only in this place. She let her lips part and the breeze glided into her mouth, fresh on her tongue, full of stars. How did so much brightness fit in the night sky? How could so much ocean fit inside her? Who was she in this place?”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

“Suffering has no measure. There are no scales to weigh it. There is only sorrow after sorrow.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

“It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman lifts another woman, and she in turn lifts the world.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras