Corazón Quotes

“mi corazón, cielito lindo, tesoro mío, mi amor, mi vida, mi alma. — how beautiful it is to be loved in Spanish.”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“you love someone for a long time
so long you don’t remember not loving them
so long the years accordion into each other
and within the folds, all the times you didn’t get it right so you let them go
they come back
(or you call them back)
you swear it’ll be different
but it isn’t
you still love them
each failure hurts
you think, maybe you can be friends
but that too is a sharp pain
you don’t want them in your life
you don’t want to live without them
another year goes by this way
turning hope into your only bread and water
maybe you’ll figure it out
maybe someone new
will make you both
forget
maybe the world will end
and set you free”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“I needed to find your God and ask him to forgive me for trying to love anyone else before you”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“I say I want love but I know it’s not true when it comes, what will I do with this habit of asking for what I do not know how to keep?”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“I learned to forgive before I learned to speak / to turn palms upward to God and my lover / to let a man ruin me with his love / to call the ruins sacred / to uproot everything and call the new place mine / to name the nostalgia something sweet / a ripened fruit growing out of a dying tree”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“tonight
I'll dance
I'll be alive

and ain't that worth the party?”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“I come from women
who fend for themselves

the blade is our friend

and you?

you are a weed

I know how to slice you out of me”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“and if he loves you, what is next?”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón