The Invisible Mountain Quotes

“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“He was like a bottle and music was the wine.... She liked to be near him when it poured.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“That’s how it is, she thought; we carry worlds inside ourselves and long to taste the worlds of others, we stare and prod and sip and can’t inhabit.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“Life was full of lost worlds. You could travel miles of twisting roads and think you’re far away from all you know and suddenly stumble on the scrap of one.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“Poetry alone won’t change the world,” Andrés said. “But without it, where would we be? Stripped of mystery, passion, everything that urges us to stay awake despite the shit and pain of living. In a world full of war, we need it more than ever.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“When days are scarce what better way to spend them than in a bout of madness.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“So this is what joy does to a woman, she thought: it makes you hungry, makes you long to live and live, makes you guard the secret at any cost, wakes the animal inside and makes her growl to break the heavens into pieces.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“The heart of things, you touch it when you speak; somehow you shake and shift the flesh reality is made of.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“Nunca podré ser la misma mujer que fui o que podría haber sido, y si debo vivir, entonces debo matarla, ahora, aquí, sentada en este suelo, debo matar a la mujer que podría haber sido y no puedo ser. Porque hay otra mujer esperando que todavía puedo ser pero que aun no soy, solo estoy empezando a ser ella”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“She had to become larger to make room for so much life.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain

“People are energy too, and when you cannot see them they’ve just changed places, or changed forms, or sometimes both.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain