Parra Quotes

#1. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#2. I'm a big fan of the artist Parra, and the way he draws naked women is really cool to see. It doesn't look perverted, it just looks really awesome.

Chaz Bundick

#3. To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich

Roberto Bolano

#4. This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life - an unflinching, honest portrayal of young adults. A seamless and impressive debut.

Anne Frasier

#5. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.

Roberto Bolano

#6. There is a species for every predator...

Gabbo De La Parra

#7. Only love with its science makes us so innocent.

Violeta Parra

#8. Laughing like crazy
the child goes back to the city
gives birth to monsters
creates earthquakes
hairy women run naked
old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.

Nicanor Parra

#9. He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY.
THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE

Nicanor Parra

#10. TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT
To make a long story short
I leave all my possessions
to the Municipal Slaughterhouse
to the Special Unit of the Police Department
to Lucky Dog Lotto
So now if you want you can shoot

Nicanor Parra

#11. To analyze is to renounce yourself
One can reason only in a circle
One sees only what one wants to see
Birth solves nothing
I admit I'm crying.

Nicanor Parra

#12. Life gets in the way of Creativity, but it's up to us not to let it interfere more than necessary.

Gabbo De La Parra

#13. No one can outrun their heart.

Gabbo De La Parra

#14. Hatred and Blessing cannot coexist in the same heart.

Gabbo De La Parra

#15. A true hunter always has trophies (even if they are secret).

Gabbo De La Parra

#16. If someone tells you a secret that doesn't belong to them, be sure that secret has been shared more than once.

Gabbo De La Parra

#17. You can please yourself without pleasuring yourself, but you cannot pleasure yourself without pleasing yourself.

Gabbo De La Parra

#18. If we are to become friends I must laugh the way I really do, LOL is not my thing.

Gabbo De La Parra

#19. Erotic and Romantic end with the same letters. That's what I call a Happy Ending.

Gabbo De La Parra

#20. Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

Violeta Parra

#21. If you can't be pretty, at least be nice.

Gabbo De La Parra

#22. Religion is for the intimacy of your heart, not for your tongue and hands to hurt others.

Gabbo De La Parra

#23. Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.

Nicanor Parra

#24. Cojones: it's a thing you either have or don't.

Gabbo De La Parra

#25. He'll is just one apostrophe away from Hell. Keep that in mind.

Gabbo De La Parra

#26. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

#27. United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

Nicanor Parra

#28. Jealousy is not the remedy.
It is the illness.

Gabbo De La Parra

#29. The only way to become immune to bullshit is to stop believing in it.

Gabbo De La Parra

#30. To think without saying is to hold an armed grenade without throwing it.

Francisco Parra

#31. I can handle Evil, but I cannot handle Anticipation.

Gabbo De La Parra

#32. Never trust a man who cannot laugh at himself.

Gabbo De La Parra

#33. You can't always win. But you should keep trying.

Gabbo De La Parra

#34. The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions.

Kelly Parra

#35. The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

Teresa De La Parra

#36. Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Violeta Parra

#37. If one day I was taken away ... would you wait for me to come back?"
Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?"
"Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else."
"No."
I swallowed and blinked back tears.
"I'd go after you," he said.

Kelly Parra

#38. As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I prefer for my protagonist.

Gabbo De La Parra

#39. Faith is in your Heart; Religion is in your Head.

Gabbo De La Parra

#40. A poem should improve on the blank page.

Nicanor Parra

#41. People only need the right amount of bullshit for things to start exploding. Sad, but it's human nature.

Gabbo De La Parra

#42. Clockwork Vendetta is not steampunk; it is steamfun. I can't take myself so seriously as to write something truly punk in the true sense of the word.

Gabbo De La Parra

#43. Don't ask for something you're not willing to give.

Gabbo De La Parra