Memory's Fictions Quotes

“Perhaps in the fourth generation, a Vicenta Nuqui will be born among them, talkative, a worry wart, a singer, a beautiful, loving woman, but she won't bear her name. There will be no more Vicentas or Quiteras in the 21st century.”
― Bienvenido N. Santos, Memory's Fictions: A Personal History

“But there was nothing I could do about people in my drawings. Their faces looked frightening, their hair was always straggly and the only characteristic that distinguished the sexes was their hair. My women looked like witches that had been made of broomsticks. When they had brooms, they seemed a part of them. The men looked like gnomes with pinheads. When I tried to improve on this, they turned into grasshoppers.”
― Bienvenido N. Santos, Memory's Fictions: A Personal History

“There is a Julio Iglesias song which I like very much. It's about "the girls I have loved before." and who have loved me. In my version, I sing of "old women" who have loved me before.”
― Bienvenido N. Santos, Memory's Fictions: A Personal History