Quotes from Demetria Martínez

You see, I am good at filling in blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion.

No one lacks voice. Not even the dead. But many lack ears, the ability to hear those stories out of which the most destitute of people are forging their destines, breathing life into bleached bones.

Lately, when asked, I have tended to say that I'm Mexican. I like the word because it still makes so many people flinch.

Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.