77 Quotes

“Our reality is no less terrifying than that story. The dictatorship called its victims “the disappeared.” The word implied that, in the event they were ever found, what those mothers would receive would be apparitions. No matter how many explanations and psychological theories might be offered to overcome that grief, they would always be ghosts, always, ghosts circling them, just as the mothers circled the Plaza demanding an appearance, an apparition, from that pink building. Perhaps terror was the most appropriate genre for recounting our national history.”
― Guillermo Saccomanno, 77

“At twenty we believe in passion; we tremble. We allow ourselves the luxury of suffering for love since we have an arsenal of spasms at our disposal. The most trivial, sentimental foolishness thrills us or plunges us into despair.”
― Guillermo Saccomanno, 77