Mayra Santos Febres Quotes

#1. Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport.

William Shakespeare

#2. What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#3. I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

John Pomfret

#4. The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.

Brian Roberts

#5. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

John Daniel Thieme

#6. There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other

Mayra Santos-Febres

#7. The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

Terence McKenna

#8. Life, or the specter of life, is constantly challenging us for acts we've never committed. And sometimes for acts we never even thought of committing.

Roberto Bolano

#9. You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.

Mayra Santos-Febres