Ten of My Favourite Carolina De Robertis Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Carolina De Robertis, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Carolina De Robertis you will find my Ten favourites of Carolina De Robertis’s quotes.
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“When days are scarce what better way to spend them than in a bout of madness.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain
“No, I wanted to say, he didn’t cut off her hands because he didn’t have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don’t understand that, if you’ve never been in such a family, then you can’t know the way the mind shackles itself and amputates its own limbs so adeptly that you never think to miss them, never think that you had anything so obscene as choice.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla
“But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla
“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake the world with terrifying rapidity, and they do so without moral distinction…There is a battle going on right now over the words we use, over who has the right to speak and who does not. (Katie Kitamura)”
― Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
“What makes the self?
Experiences. Acculturation.
What else?
I don’t know.
What’s within you.
She says, I don’t know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived.
You can never know that.
No.
But there is a you that was there before you were born and that nobody shaped or changed or could have changed.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla
“It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long, hard road, love that provides the moral compass and the map.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)”
― Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
“Music, arrow to pierce all barriers. Music, the great equalizer. Music, invader of centuries. Nectar of demons, whiskey flask of God.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Gods of Tango
“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain
“He was like a bottle and music was the wine…. She liked to be near him when it poured.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The Invisible Mountain
10 Famous Quotes by Author Carolina De Robertis
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“There’s that feeling that comes when you read something and the lines speak directly to you, and to you only, even though the person who wrote them died long before you were born, or, even if alive, has no idea you exist. The words seep right into your mind. They pour into your secret hollows and take their shape, a perfect fit, like water. And you are slightly less alone in the universe, because you have been witnessed, because you have been filled, because someone once found words for things within you that you couldn’t yourself name – something gesturing not only toward what you are, but what you could become.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla
