The Memory of Silence Quotes

“What I will always remember about Havana is the light...All I can see is the blinding light of Havana. It's burned into my retina. It still hurts my eyes.”
― Uva de Aragón, The Memory of Silence

“Cuba is painful for me, too. It hurts to always feel like a foreigner, with your roots exposed, with this feeling that everything is temporary, that life is back there in a future that never seems to get here. What has happened to us is very hard, but there are so many who have it so much worse.”
― Uva de Aragón, The Memory of Silence

“They all looked like families coming back from Church, wearing their Sunday best. In reality, they were refugees who had no idea how drastically their lives were about to change.”
― Uva de Aragón, The Memory of Silence

“I don't have any fears whatsoever. I am fulfilling my duty to my country.”
― Uva de Aragón, The Memory of Silence

“That's why I always say being a Cuban is an incurable disease that you get in your blood, and sometimes it's even contagious.”
― Uva de Aragón, The Memory of Silence