Becoming Marta Quotes

“The act of taking a photograph interfered with memory, because instead of living in the moment you were thinking about preserving it for posterity. It sacrificed the present for the sake of a future evocation.”
― Lorea Canales, Becoming Marta

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― Lorea Canales, Becoming Marta

“The architect was all too familiar with his clients’ contradictions. They wanted an extraordinary house, something palatial with no expense spared. But they also sought simplicity and discretion. This was”
― Lorea Canales, Becoming Marta

“is not easy to enter a party. The heat outside was deadly; the sun had set, darkness settled, but the heat remained. Marta climbed the stairs to the main palapa. She stood watching, her hair wet and feet”
― Lorea Canales, Becoming Marta

“Man creates art, so why do we value art and not man?”
― Lorea Canales, Becoming Marta