The Book of Lost Saints Quotes

“What do you do when you’ve already torn down the world to make a better one and the better one turns out to be just as rotten as the one you shattered?”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“You shatter the world all over again, I suppose. And keep breaking it until you get one you can name Freedom.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“But what matters is: I have a place, a place that knows me and I know it. It has a rhythm, a people. A we beyond that impossible ethereal mass.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“You crack slightly in the face of a world not built for you, and they load you up with medications til you can't feel anything, then they act surprised when your body and mind rebel and the rebellion is an explosion outward instead of another suicide attempt.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

“I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody.”
― Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution