Loop Quotes

“Change. Unlearning yourself is more important than knowing yourself.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Speaking of Kafka, have I told you he’s one of the authors I read for self-improvement? Today I underlined this phrase, which I could repeat every morning: ‘He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.’ In fact, the genre people call self-help literature sounds tautological to me; I read all literature as self-help.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“I wonder what someone's life would be like if they'd never reached, if they'd never seen, if they couldn't imagine their own depths. Those depths where only pain can take you.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Don't be alarmed if this isn't going anywhere. Don't expect theories, reliable facts or conclusions. Don't take any of this too seriously. That's what universities are for, and theses, and academic studies. Personally, I like cafés, bars and living rooms. Not to mention comfortable cushions. So nice and cosy.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Dwarf things. Small things. Little things in relation to the norm. Insignificant things. Things with different dimensions. Curiously, the stories I like the most are made up of trivialities. Details. Trifles. These days, people look to what's big. The big picture, big sales figures, success. Bright lights, interviews, breaking news. Whatever's famous. Importance judged by fame. Maybe small things are subversive. Living on a modest scale compared to the norm. Maybe the dwarf is the hero of our time.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Maybe small things are subversive.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Or our diminutive president, who always appears in cartoons in a suit three sizes too big.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“It’s eight-thirty a.m. I read the new granola packet. It’s horrible, Jonás, a woman telling her story, in the first person, all about why she started making granola at home. The brand is named after her son, who disappeared in this pointless so-called War. A mother trying to raise money, through homemade granola, to fund a private investigation. I felt powerless, I lost my appetite. What the fuck is happening here? It’s”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“There’s nothing like writing at midday on a Saturday while wearing slippers. It’s a state very close to happiness. I’d be completely happy if I were also drinking a coffee and smoking a cigarette. We always need to be a few steps away from happiness. The transience of the state, the euphoria that can’t last. Happiness is high-pitched. Like a woman talking in a high-pitched voice and everyone turning to look.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“An ideal notebook should be waterproof, like the books children read in the bath. You can’t have a notebook getting wet as you wash, like Ulises Lima’s books do when he reads in the shower. An ideal notebook should be able to go underwater. Whether it floats like a rubber duck or swims in the deep like a whale, it needs to be waterproof.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“If I were a sound I could be independent from reality. If I were music I could travel further.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Today a dwarf smiled at me.

The transformation happened to this story.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all blows or falls leave marks, the words are there, ready to be put together in different ways, anywhere, anytime, in response to any fall, however serious or slight.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“...the present is also, as its name suggests, a gift. It doesn't suggest longing or loss. It's just a present, a gift, a time with no strings attached which is totally ours, to use however we want, however we please. There are days when I find the future overwhelming, with all the bright lights and commotion.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Childhood is so uncertain, so distant. It's almost like childhood is the origin of fiction: describing any past event over and over to see how far away you are getting from reality.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop