Federico García Lorca · 96 pages
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“En la bandera de la libertad bordé el amor más grande de mi vida.”
“Si en esta casa hubiera hierbas, ya te encargarías de traer a pastar las ovejas del vecindario.”
“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.”
“Tus hijas están y viven como metidas en alacenas. Pero ni tú ni nadie puede vigilar por el interior de los pechos. BERNARDA.”
“¡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.”
“LA PONCIA: Ésta tiene algo. La encuentro sin sosiego, temblona, asustada, como si tuviese una lagartija entre los pechos.”
“I can’t believe you bit me there,” she finally said. “But what I really can’t believe is how it felt.”
A smile curved his lips. “There are perks to being a vampire. That is one of them. I’ll enjoy showing you the others.”
“- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.'
- 'Ready for what?'
- He smiles big. 'Exactly.”
“Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other...”
“You forgot to call,' he says.
I throw open my arms. He pulls me into them, and we kiss, and his lips are cold, and I think he's crying, and I'm definitely crying, and I pull back to say, 'I am so in love with you, Joshua Wasserstein. Of course I'll wait for you.”
“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.”
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