I Didn't Talk Quotes

“To accept navy and cancer, archiving them in pigeonholes called soldier and death, is to discard, as error, care and maternity.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“..without realizing it, we already knew the entirety of their lives: something inside has woven their stories…and this is how we make people known and familiar, enclosed in a story that doesn’t threaten us.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“That’s the birdsong…the appearance of a priest in a church when we’re only there to see the stained glass windows. The moment in which we perceive another dimension of what we’re doing…and the value of error…because the birdsong in the middle of…Kant is certainly an error…and such is the magic of errors: we return from them changed…only then do we stop to think…and choose the most interesting path.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“The past tense triumphed in each tribute…being buried alive annoyed me. It was such an elegant, efficient way to stop listening to what I have to say.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“I’m healthy, the illnesses I get come and go without medication, I cost very little.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“We let it happen, we occasioned this horror. And we continue to occasion, it happens, we are still men.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“It takes all the strength of my spirit to transform my executioners into animals, not to leave the slightest opening, to discuss nothing, not even Pelé . Which is impossible, I never met anyone who couldn’t. And that is how along with fear, shame takes its hold.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk

“If it’s possible to have a thought without a word or an image, without time and space—complete, created by me, a revelation of what remains hidden in me (and from me) but suddenly appears, if it could be born so clearly for all to see, without origin, without any effort of breath, of tone of voice, of rhythm or hesitation, without vision even, emerging like a normal thought, or more than a thought: a thing—if such a thing could exist, then I’d like to tell a story.”
― Beatriz Bracher, I Didn't Talk