How to Turn Into a Bird Quotes

“They didn’t know it, but the boy who crossed with them—his clothes, they thought, looked a bit muddy—was the ghost of Eduardito, the boy who had drowned. He wanted to warn them that there are junctions where the line joining the past to the present bends right around until it forms a hole. “If you fall down, you won’t come back,” he wanted to tell them. But, with all the adrenaline pumping through them, they didn’t stop to listen.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Turn Into a Bird

“Through dark places too—stammering, tears, hiccups—that were useful in their own way. For what? Only he knew. After all, he alone trod the path of his drunkenness. A rocky path—all the world’s drinkers know as much—but as illuminating as any of those traveled by the great sages of the Jesus Christ or André the Giant variety.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Turn Into a Bird

“I wasn’t a model student, but I was a good model of a typical student.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Turn Into a Bird

“tired of dealing with the distance between the image she has of herself and the one the rest of us have of her.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Turn Into a Bird

“Relationships between what happens above and what happens below. You had to position yourself in an intermediary space—not too attached to the earth, not too close to the sky—in order to see them.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Turn Into a Bird

“Let’s see if you’ve understood, Ramón: Your job is to take care of the billboard. To make sure the lamps aren’t filched. If that means you need to sleep up there, swing from a cloud, or hide in the bushes, in all honesty we don’t care.” “Okay, thank you,” said Ramón, who considered what he had just heard a kind of municipal permit to reside in his new dwelling.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Turn Into a Bird