Pink Slime Quotes

“Se esforzaba por sobrevivir a la maternidad, ese campo minado que no te permitía ningún movimiento sin el riesgo de hacerte volar en pedazos.”
― Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa

“La memoria es una vasija rota: mil pedazos y lascas de barro seco. ¿Qué partes tuyas quedan intactas? El barro te hace resbalar, perdés el equilibrio. Y era un equilibrio tan precario, te esforzaste tanto en mantenerlo, para luego irte de culo al piso.
Qué risa. Mirate.
No hay manera grácil de caer.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“El comienzo nunca es el comienzo. Lo que confundimos con el comienzo es solo el momento en que entendemos que las cosas han cambiado”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“The beginning is never the beginning. What we often mistake for the beginning is just the moment we realise something has changed.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“The epidemic had given us back what we’d thought was lost forever: a country of readers buried away far from the sea, the wealthy in their hilltop estates or mansions, the poor overflowing the small cities we used to mock for being empty, lacking, dim.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“El comienzo nunca es el comienzo. Lo que confundimos con el comienzo es solo el momento en que entendemos que las cosas han cambiado.”
― Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa

“¿Qué de todo? Es muy linda la vista de París, pero uno se acostumbra. Es pintoresco, pero tiene esa belleza impostada, cómo decirte..., esa belleza de señoras con pieles de zorro. Yo casi siempre me olvido de que el Sena pasa por ahí abajo.”
― Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa

“Not long ago, we could barely spend five minutes together. Her double-edged questions, her benevolent campaigns to control my life. You can’t wish so intensely for someone else’s well-being. It’s monstrous; aggressive, even.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“My mother used to say: the labyrinths you build for yourself have no exit.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“Memory is a broken urn: a thousand shards and fragments of dried mud. What parts of you remain intact? You slip in the mud, lose your balance. And it had been such a delicate balance, one you’d tried so hard to keep, only to fall flat on your ass.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“You’re right about that. This one’s so sensible she’s deadly. And believe me when I say it, I’ve known her since I was five.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“It wasn’t an appeal, but rather the verbal expression of a weariness so complete it extended beyond my body, beyond my physical and mental existence; an exhaustion embedded in time itself.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“There you go again, aggressive and irritable. You won’t go far like that.’
‘I don’t want to go anywhere.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“The night had done nothing to ease my exhaustion, which I felt as soon as I tried to move: a force of gravity pulling me down into the mattress. I could have shattered into so many pieces no one would’ve been able to put me back together.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“I cannot stop a future that has already arrived.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“I had suddenly lost the right to risk my life.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“He remained transfixed by his game, cocooned in a space I couldn't enter. Years of life and mistrust separated me from that realm where everything was possible, from those fantasies that made the world a better, kinder place.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“I didn't want to get involved, didn't want to think about anything other than myself; I wanted to rest for a while inside my privilege.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“Such a difficult balance to strike: motherhood was a real minefield, any false step might blow you to pieces.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“We'd always pretended to be older than we were. We wanted to speed up time, become adults, because we thought that life began then, that what we were living was just practice.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“Max and my mother were enemies at war over a miniscule territory.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“You can't wish so intensely for someone else's well-being. It's monstrous; aggressive, even.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“You’re the wrapping,’ he said, ‘but something else lies beneath. That face. A girl disguised as a monster.’
‘Or a monster disguised as a girl?’
‘Does it matter?’ he asked.
‘It matters to me.’
‘The monster and the girl were one.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“She didn’t need to be judge and jury with me; I imposed my punishments on myself.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“I go back, sometimes.
In your mind, you mean?
Something like that.
The mind is a dangerous place.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“Are you asking my permission?
No.
What, then?
I saw you the other day.
Where?
In a dream.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“The water barely made a sound as it lapped against the seawall. The air was completely still. How long could this calm last? Every war had its ceasefires, even this one we fought unarmed.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“Resignation is not a virtue,’ she said. ‘You have to fight for what you want.”
― Fernanda Trías, Pink Slime

“Al final el castillo de arena se desmorona.
Sí.
Vos los sabés, siempre lo supiste. Entonces ¿para qué lo construías?
Decime vos.
No para que durara, no para protegerlo de la ola.
Ya sé a dónde querés llegar.
El viaje, si no está lleno de paradojas, no es un viaje.”
― Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa

“¿No te alegra por nosotros? Vos que decías que yo no tenía talento para la vida, y mirame ahora —Extendió los brazos, por completo incorporado en la cama—: un hombre rico. Con un enorme talento para no morirse.”
― Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa