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1 " The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it. "
― Daniel Alarcón , Lost City Radio
2 " Nothing builds community like complaining. "
3 " They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool. "
4 " What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die? "
5 " What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement?...The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text. "
6 " Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade. "
7 " Are you a politician?I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents. "
8 " The bond between parent and child is chemical, fierce, and inexplicable, even if that parent is a sworn killer. This connection cannot be measured; it at once more subtle and more powerful than science. "
9 " You don't sound like a scientist; you sound like a poet." Rey smiled. "Can I be both?" "But you'd rather be a poet.""Who wouldn't?" he said. "
10 " Ellos no querían hablar sobre la guerra, suponía él, querían hablar sobre sus tíos, sus primos, sus vecinos en aquellos pueblos que abandonaron hacía tanto tiempo; sobre cómo era el olor de la tierra en su hogar, el ruido de la lluvia al caer en ráfagas sobre las copas de los árboles, los colores chillones de la campiña en flor. "