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1 " 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 , Sirena Selena vestida de pena
2 " Para algo soy puertorriqueño, es decir, isleño hasta cierto punto, negro negado y blanco sin serlo. Un híbrido, la mitad de algo, el doble del doble. "
― Mayra Santos-Febres
3 " 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 "
4 " El saber fue, por mucho tiempo, nuestra mayor y más compartida pasión. "
― Mayra Santos-Febres , Fe en disfraz
5 " marido? —Soy viuda. —Será de un fantasma encarnado, porque los otros días yo vi a Peyo caminando por la Plaza —interrumpió otra de las comadronas que esperaban en la oficina. —Para lo que sirve, mejor darlo por muerto —respondió la comadrona que entrevistaba. Rieron ambas. "
― Mayra Santos-Febres , La amante de Gardel
6 " Perhaps my story will allow someone to see their reflection in its muddy waters on some evening when they are lost and looking for shelter in the city at night. I can’t guarantee that the reflection will be of much help, or that these papers will offer even a fragile roof over their head. But here between these papers is where the promise lives and breathes. "
― Mayra Santos-Febres , Any Wednesday I'm Yours
7 " Lord of the seven winds, what a smile! He could pull down the walls of a city with that smile. And I, like that walls of puerta de Tierra, could feel myself crumbling under its dazzling sparkle. "
8 " We were three women who walked different paths in life and yet all three of us washed up on the same shore. Destiny is such a motherfucker. God must be a real son of a bitch. "
9 " The boy toy smiled and, right there in the half-open garage, planted a kiss on his lover’s lips as if he wanted to trap the soul escaping out of his mouth and into the other’s body. "
10 " My heart Is a ship in the turbulent ocean defying the raging storm that they call love "
11 " feministas que se dejen de hablar mierda. Habrá una ley que otra que nos proteja, una puerta que otra que se nos abra. Pero en el día a día, una mujer sigue valiendo lo que siempre ha valido una mujer. "
