Inez Quotes

“A veces se olvida porque el recuerdo duele y hay que creer que lo ocurrido nunca ocurrió, se olvida lo más importante porque puede ser lo mas doloroso”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“Celos es dar la importancia a la persona que quisieramos sólo para nosotros... la envidía es una ponzoña impotente, queremos ser el otro. El celo es generoso, queremos que el otro sea mío”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“El muerto no sabe lo que es la muerte, pero los vivos tampoco”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“La mejor manera de esconderse es mostrarse. Si nos buscan creyendo que hemos desaparecido, nunca nos encontraran en el lugar más obvio.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“...uncontrolled passions are like poison. Dormant, they are vices, they feed the soul, and the soul, deceived, or believing it is being nourished, is in fact being poisoned by its own unknown and unruly passion. Is it true, as other heretics, the Cathars, believed, that the best way to rid oneself of passion is to bring it into the open and indulge it, with no restraint of any kind?”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez

“You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted time; you have opened a forbidden field to what happened to you before.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez

“Hay pocas mujeres inmaduras y muchos niños disfrazados de hombres.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“México: las manos vacías de pan pero la cabeza lena de sueños.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“-Te voy a necesitar.
-¿Podrás decirtme cuando?
-Siempre”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“You will seek a way to have thoughts, feeling that if you think you will have to remember. There will be things you do want to remember and others you would like, or that you will need, to forget.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez

“Los dos serán los fantasmas de su propia juventud, o quizás sea sólo el cuerpo el que envejece, encarcelando para siempre a la juventud dentro de ese espectro que llamamos 'alma'.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“A veces dudo que los hombres en realidad nos quieran, lo que quieren es competir con otros hombres y ganarles.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Instinto de Inéz

“...without its changing shape or dimensions all of a lifetime's memories fit miraculously within it, perhaps revealing a mystery...Memory was not something that overflowed or was shoehorned into the shape of an object; it was something that was distilled, transformed, with each new experience.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez

“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez

“You will wish and not wish to see.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez

“We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Inez