Loverboys Quotes

“There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys: Stories

“Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. ”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys

“Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys

“To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys

“Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys

“It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not talking about romantic/love/sex capture of another soul but the true captivation of another's spirit, which happens between people of the same sex sometimes.”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys

“No, it's too much. I should never have let you know that I was here. After all, there was no reason to tell you. It was just that we landed and I was sucked up by the tentacles of this, your city, and your name and that summer that were all inseparable and I called as soon as I put my bag down on the bed in this room.”
― Ana Castillo, Loverboys