“Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“النمو في الحياة لا يتم إلا بعبور حدود الشخصية: اكتشاف قدرات يعتقد الواحد منا أنه لا يملكها.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“لا بد من تعلّم أن يكون الإنسان رفيقًا طيبًا لنفسه.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“Pero Sara no entendería que ella se sintiera tan contenta. no entendía el placer de ser uno mismo, tomar decisiones, tener la vida bajo control. Sara había pasado del padre-padre al padre-marido.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“Nadie puede decir cuál habría sido nuestra historia si tanta tribu no hubiese sido aniquilada. Los españoles decían que debían civilizarnos, hacernos abandonar la barbarie. Pero ellos, con barbarie, nos dominaron, nos despoblaron. En pocos años hicieron más sacrificios humanos que nosotros en el tiempo largo que transcurrió desde las primeras festividades.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“Nuestra herencia de tambores batientes ha de continuar latiendo en la sangre de estas generaciones.
Es lo único, Yarince, que permaneció: la resistencia.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“In any case, if they don't do it to you, they do it to someone else...if you let them do it to others, you become an accomplice, intentionally or not”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
“كلنا شعرنا بالخوف، ما يهم ليس الإحساس به، بل التغلب عليه.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman
Gioconda Belli
Born place: in Managua, Nicaragua
Born date December 9, 1948
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“It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The State of the Art
“Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.”
― Jacqueline Rayner, quote from Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
“What a silly routine, Natalie thought, not realizing, sitting there alone on the stool in the center of the ring of girls, how she was jeopardizing her own future in college, her own future for four years and perhaps for the rest of her life; how even worse than the actual being a bad sport was the state of mind which led her into defiance of this norm, this ring of placid, masked girls, with their calm futures ahead and their regular pasts proven beyond a doubt; how one person stepping however aside from their meaningless, echoing standards, set perhaps by a violent movement before their recollection, and handed down to them by other placid creatures, might lose a seat among them by questions, by rebellion, by anything except a cheerful smile and a resolution to hurt other people.”
― Shirley Jackson, quote from Hangsaman
“He thought of the feeling of receiving oxygen from a mask and the calming sensation it brought, partly because of the concentrated gas but partly too because he could hear his muffled lungs expelling their product within the mask, and it reminded him that he was breathing, that the gas was flowing at all times but most importantly at that moment, a constant and essential truth. His lips and lungs and teeth were witness to the passage of breath.”
― Amelia Gray, quote from Threats
“people aren’t allowed to say what’s really on their minds for fear of upsetting people, we’ll end up never saying anything at all.”
― James Dawson, quote from This Book is Gay
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