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Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska QUOTES

1 " —Señor del Cuatro, ¿por qué no se va usted al campo? ¡Al campo, Señor del Cuatro! Allí nomás arribita de Las Lomas. A medida que se camina por un ladito que yo sé, los árboles son cada vez más verdes y cada vez más sombríos, casi negros de tan juntos uno con otro... Allí hay una fuente que sólo los pájaros conocen... y hierbas locas y pasto descuidado... Nadie hace ruido. El silencio es tan grande que se oyen los cuchicheos de las ramas y las huidas húmedas de las flores. Allí puede usted hacer geometría moral sobre la arena. "

― Elena Poniatowska , Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska

2 " but just as you become impregnated with someone, even after that someone is gone, that is how Lilus remained "

― Elena Poniatowska , Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska

3 " It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait. "

― Elena Poniatowska , Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska

4 " but she won’t let him finish his scolding; she’ll throw her arms of water around his neck; she will show him her necklaces of small, blue shells, so tender they resemble children’s eyelids as they sleep, and of hard shells that look like the teeth of killer fish. Or she’ll tell him that god has made nature not only to look upon but also so that we may live in her, and that each person has his own wave, and won’t he please choose his. "

― Elena Poniatowska , Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska

5 " She can't even think anymore, she prefers to sing. "

― Elena Poniatowska , Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska

6 " Muchas veces las gentes lloran porque encuen.
tran las cosas demasiado bellas. Lo que les hace llorar, no es el deseo de poseerlas, sino esa profunda melanocolÍa que sentimos por todo lo que no es, por todo lo que no alcanza su plenitud. "

― Elena Poniatowska , Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska