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" I decided to commemorate the dead I had heard about in the news by walking around the house, opening and closing cabinet and closet doors. But there were so many massacres and common graves and disappeared and kidnapped persons, that after a while, I lost interest. The television lit our faces pale blue. Death was such a common thing. "

Ingrid Rojas Contreras , Fruit of the Drunken Tree


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Ingrid Rojas Contreras quote : I decided to commemorate the dead I had heard about in the news by walking around the house, opening and closing cabinet and closet doors. But there were so many massacres and common graves and disappeared and kidnapped persons, that after a while, I lost interest. The television lit our faces pale blue. Death was such a common thing.