Grieving Quotes

“It is impossible to grieve in the first-person singular. We always grieve for someone and with someone. Grieving connects us in ways that are subtly and candidly material. I am not yet sure which group I should join, where to envision myself, on whose shoulder to cry.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

“Like a giant X-ray, the deceleration the pandemic has brought makes clear, or even exaggerates, what was already present: an economic system guided by profit at the expense of everything else and a Visceraless State—that is, a state for which bodies are not a matter of care but merely extraction.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

“The rematerialization of our worlds in times of deceleration forces questions that are political at their very root: Who else has touched this object that I am touching? Which is another way of asking: Where does it come from, who produces it, in what conditions of exploitation or sanitation is this thing in my hands created, with what quantity of virus?”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

“Es evidente que mientras o se despenalice el consumo de drogas, es decir, mientras haya Jefe de Jefes y Empresarios Oscuros que acumulen dinero, y mucho, con ellas, este negocio no desaparecerá”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Dolerse. Textos desde un país herido.