Santa Teresa Quotes

#1. I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week.
"Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself.
"Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be.

Roberto Bolano

#2. Santa Teresa is a convent that doubles as an orphanage for girls. I'm now the oldest out of thirty-seven, a distinction I've held for six months, after the last girl who turned eighteen left. At eighteen we must all make the choice to strike out on our own or to forge a life within the Church.

Pittacus Lore

#3. But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

James A. Michener

#4. The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club.

Roberto Bolano

#5. And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

Melissa Marr

#6. Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Janet Burroway

#7. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Stormie O'martian

#8. Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Don't ever let your troubles in life break you. No matter how hard it gets, overcome it. Remember ... life goes on

Timothy Pina

#10. When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Earl Nightingale