The Country Between Us Quotes

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

“There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

“It is not your right to feel powerless.
Better people than you were powerless.”
― Carolyn Forche, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

“...the Roanoke valley
where mountains hold the breath
of the dead between them and lift
from each morning a fresh bandage of mist.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador