Short Walks from Bogota Quotes

“I asked Giovanni how he squared violence and happiness. 'I think you have to be a bit stupid to be happy,' he told me. 'By stupid, I mean fatalistic, ignorant of your rights and deferential to the powerful.”
― Tom Feiling, Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia

“On the slab that enclosed one tomb was scrawled a question, 'This is not David. Is it Luna?' The disappeared of Puerto Berrio were names without bodies; the Ningun Nombre were bodies without names. It was only natural that the bereaved should try to put them together, in an attempt at normalizing the abnormal.”
― Tom Feiling, Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia

“Los pajaros pioneered the 'necktie cut', whereby the tongue was pulled through the victim's slit throat, and 'the florist's cut', by which the victim's severed limbs were stuffed into his decapitated neck.”
― Tom Feiling, Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia