Todas las familias felices Quotes

“Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“And don't give me the same old story:
"We're in Mexico. Pray."
You'd be better off taking a snake rattle.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“Somos libres porque nos movemos. Salimos de una herida llamada soledad y viajamos a otra herida llamada muerte. Hay un cruce de caminos entre el punto de partida y el punto de llegada. En ese corretear, mi niña adorada encontramos siempre al otro, al que no es como nosotros, y nos vemos obligados a entender que si nos movemos y nos encontramos, debemos amarnos a partir del contraste.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices

“El actor primero tiene que ser para aparecer, pero al final tiene que desaparecer para seguir siendo”
― Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices