The Man Who Could Move Clouds Quotes

“My whole life, Mami has been trying to teach me: there is no such thing as a curse. More and more, I understand what she means. Everyone suffers. To believe in a curse is to believe oneself above suffering. No one is above suffering. You can only believe in a curse if you believe in being spared.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“To Mami and Nono, purity never came into healing, because purity didn’t exist. A person would always be visited by pain and grief. A person was an accretion, constantly growing in strangeness, becoming an accumulation. Healing was found in stretching toward abundance. It was not about leaving the past behind, dividing the self into good and bad, but about opening a path through ruins.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“A person was an accretion, constantly growing in strangeness, becoming an accumulation. Healing was found in stretching toward abundance. It was not about leaving the past behind, dividing the self into good and bad, but about opening a path through ruins.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceded that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceited that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“He wanted to exude authority and power, but these were qualities he did not have. They were, as it happened, the very air that Mami breathed.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“What we are certain of is the overwhelming message: in all of his daughters’ dreams, Nono expressly asked for his body to be exhumed. We are to unearth Nono’s remains.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras , The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“good curandera knows to make space for the burden, but”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“knows never to pick it up.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds