Children of the Stars Quotes

“The worst friend of the truth is silence. The worst lie in the world is that ordinary people are powerless against tyranny.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Love is a decision more than it is a feeling.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Observing the happiness of others always makes the world make a little more sense all of a sudden, makes suffering a little more bearable, makes grief a little less suffocating.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“For a moment, time stood still; nothing happened; eternity posed all its intricate movement on that one moment.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Life’s not worth living if you don’t give it to others.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Happiness was compromised of small decisions that move you closer to your dreams. Before you could be happy, you had to imagine life as an exciting novel with a happy ending.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“In one sense, childhood is an eternal present. The road traveled is just a few feet beyond the starting point, and the end goal seems so far away that it gives the false sense of eternity that the young always feel.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“You can’t learn to swim unless you’re willing to risk drowning. Keeping your distance from the water might keep you safe for a while, but it also keeps you far way from the things that are really worth it.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“This book is just that: the capacity we have as human beings to transform the world in each generation, when the balances are zeroed out and, for better or worse, everything begins again.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“From the green valleys of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon , were a village of men and women set their faces against the horror and showed that, armed with the Spirit, the noblest hearts are always capable of overcoming and that there shadows of evil will finally be dispelled until light invades everything once more — for a new generation to believe it can change the world, or at least try.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Tears spilled out of closed eyes and mixed with the tears of the faces pressed against them.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“You can’t love a symbol and hate what it represents.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Don’t confuse flags for patriots.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“The souls of men and women make a country great.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“I can’t live there, but I don’t know what I’d do if Buenos Aires didn’t exist. Chaotic, dehumanizing, dirty, anarchic — but she is my mistress, my lover.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Adults were always judging one another based on appearance, religion, skin color, or wealth. Children were not like that. For them, everyone was equal, and they hardly noticed differences between peers.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“He was the last witness of the world that was going extinct, never to be seen again.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“We live in a world in which men have become wolves for other men.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“The town embodied the reality that people could always find a way out, and the impact of one good deed was infinitely more powerful than that of evil.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“A long, dark shadow was stretching over the valley: the shadow of death and fear, darkness and hatred, which bided its time for the chance to overtake each home, field, and byway until it devoured the last ray of hope in the hearts of the women and men of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“For her, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was much more than an out-of-the-way French college. It was a secret mountain, the last place in Europe where people could carry on as people — the last place human beings could live together in harmony.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Everyone calls you ‘Pasture.’ Do you raise cows or sheep?

They call me ‘Pastor’ because I’m like a shepherd for people, and I lead them to safe pasture in God’s good earth.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Jacob longed to grow up, to become an adult, yet he was still drawn to so much from childhood, and he did not want to give up his playing.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“True peace was a sleeping child’s face.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“A family was much more than a group of people united by blood. More than anything, it was the thin thread that kept the present linked to the past. Memories and memory itself kept both worlds together.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“When there are more people who hate than people who love, then there are wars, which make hate grow until it destroys everything.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“What is hate? Like when you don’t like someone?”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Once people being to hate, they stop asking questions. Stop using their brains. They just look down on other people.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Nightmarish monsters tried to trap them that restless night, but their innocent minds escaped and flew off to the world of dreams, where everything is possible and nothing lasts forever.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Most people value freedom and life, but for me, it’s all worthless without my family. Existing without them would be a kind of slavery. Suffering with them, I’ll be with them forever.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars