My Sad Republic Quotes

“and in the darkness that was fast enclosing him he was filled with joy, because life is endless, its mysteries will never entirely be revealed, and to be human is to be alive in constant wonder.”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“There, he would live in total anonymity, a small-time bandit with no name. Nobody would believe the stories he would recall. Nobody would believe the history of his sadness.”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“It offended him and mocked him: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did. ”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“The revolution in Manila was being led by young intellectuals, sons of merchants and professionals who had been educated in Europe and who had planned their revolt using the theories of the French Revolution. Isio had long, scraggly hair, bare feet, and eyes that betrayed the many years of sadness and labor his people had endured. With a look of pity and incredulity, Salas finally asked, "How is it possible that you survived?”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“The universe of words had always seemed to him a fascinating, forbidding territory, open only to a privileged few.”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“Give up Spanish, give up anything in the language that broke our hearts. Do not be tempted by English, the language that breaks our souls. Speak only in the tongue of tongues before any white man came.”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“He listened to everyone but his heart kept asking why.”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic

“With every step he felt he was losing some part of himself, the way we gradually lose our memory of what we once thought mattered, pulling us faster towards that emptiness in which we are no longer human.”
― Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic