Federico García Lorca · 96 pages
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“En la bandera de la libertad bordé el amor más grande de mi vida.”
― Federico García Lorca, quote from La casa de Bernarda Alba
“Si en esta casa hubiera hierbas, ya te encargarías de traer a pastar las ovejas del vecindario.”
― Federico García Lorca, quote from La casa de Bernarda Alba
“ANGUSTIAS.—Yo creo, madre, que él me oculta muchas cosas.
BERNARDA.—No procures descubrirlas, no le preguntes y, desde luego, que no te vea llorar jamás.”
― Federico García Lorca, quote from La casa de Bernarda Alba
“Tus hijas están y viven como metidas en alacenas. Pero ni tú ni nadie puede vigilar por el interior de los pechos. BERNARDA.”
― Federico García Lorca, quote from La casa de Bernarda Alba
“¡Aquí se acabaron las voces de presidio! (ADELA arrebata un bastón a su madre y lo parte en dos). No dé usted un paso más.”
― Federico García Lorca, quote from La casa de Bernarda Alba
“LA PONCIA: Ésta tiene algo. La encuentro sin sosiego, temblona, asustada, como si tuviese una lagartija entre los pechos.”
― Federico García Lorca, quote from La casa de Bernarda Alba
“the man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding… and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be…. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it.”
― Noam Chomsky, quote from What Kind of Creatures Are We?
“I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond the sea. That boy is not me, though I am what he became.”
― Kermit Roosevelt III, quote from Allegiance
“I am not your justification for existence.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics)
“This is hardly love.”
“Then it’s hardly lust.”
“Then we’ll just call it us.”
― Whitney G., quote from Turbulence
“Here we go," the Skull sighed. "Cue crisis!”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from The Empty Grave
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