Daughters of the Stone Quotes

“Nightmares are for people who refuse to listen to their hearts. People who have lost their way, who are hollow. Fear slips into those hollow places. It is the very emptiness that draws the fear.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“We all have stories. Sometimes the pain lies so heavily inside us that it can only be whispered. Sometimes it can't be spoken out loud at all. So you think you're different? There are many silences. You've got one kind but each of us has her own. Listen and you will hear them all around you. [...] You're not alone in your pain, never have been. We're all part of each other's pain and can be a part of each other's healing too.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“Nightmares are for people who refuse to listen to their hearts. People who have lost their way, who are hollow. Fear slips into those hollow places. It is the very emptiness that draws the fear.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“I am a teller of stories. It is what I do. It is who I am. I have collected many stories. They have been given to me freely. And now, I give them to you. All I ask is that you listen with your heart and, if you have a mind to, that you pass them on.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“What you’ll be left with in the end will sustain you much more than any illusion you may have brought with you. Because here in addition to all the problems of poverty, political intrigue, corruption, jealousy, and sociological and historical denial, you’ll also find familia, respeto, dignidad, amor, trabajo, cariño. And yes, you will find racism, alive and well, just like you left it up north.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“I want you to soar. I want you to go out and find your path and create your own story.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“I would go back there and look for the river and walk through old villages and stand under the moon. I would look into the faces of the people and see the lines of my own face in theirs…. I would listen to the drumming and let the music pull my body. I would dance to the sun at sunset and the moon at midnight and I would soar in my imagination.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“Don’t forget that the artist still has to be a woman. Nourish them both.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“I took their stories and nurtured them, blended them with my own, and let them simmer.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“They brought me the pieces of their lives and bade me make them a quilt of words. When the world was moving too fast for them, they bade me stop time.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“Like a primeval wave, these stories have carried me, and deposited me on the morning of today. They are the stories of how I came to be who I am, where I am.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“These are the stories. My stories, their stories—just as they were told to my mother and her mother and hers. They were given to me for safekeeping, and now I give them to you.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

“We all have stories. Sometimes the pain lies so heavily inside us that it can only be whispered. Sometimes it can't be spoken out loud at all. So you think you’re different? There are many silences. You’ve got one kind but each of us has her own. Listen and you will hear them all around you….You’re not alone in your pain, never have been. and can be part of each other’s healing too.”
― Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone