Silvina Ocampo Quotes

“I promise to feel
no other pain
if I cease to feel
the one that’s killing me now.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Silvina Ocampo

“You were not gazing at the fallen leaves.
You went away from all the following
seasons, feeling immortal.
You loved tattoos and salt.
Mariner, with two oars you knew
the sea like a garden...then, you were gone.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Silvina Ocampo

“Houses dream they are boats at night.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Silvina Ocampo

“If I were a tree I would be the tree you're seeing
with its open crown, which will keep on growing.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Silvina Ocampo