Quotes from Marie Arana

Life is better when we imagine it

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

Life is better when we imagine it

I don't want to be like trees that put down roots in one place," he wrote. "I'd rather be like the wind, the water, the sun—like all those things that are forever in perpetual motion.

You can't change skin, can't fix tongues, can't brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking

So what is the moral of this story? The answer out of Cajamarca is: Do what you can. You can't change skin, can't fix tongues, can't brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking

La mentira de que instauraría un trono, fantasma inventado por sus enemigos y extrañamente acogido por sus seguidores, había caldeado las pasiones hasta un punto febril.

Ni Alejandro, ni Aníbal, ni siquiera Julio César habían luchado en un terreno tan amplio e inhóspito. Carlomagno habría tenido que duplicar sus victorias para igualar las de Bolívar. Napoleón, en su lucha por construir un imperio, había cubierto menos terreno que Bolívar en su campaña por conquistar la libertad[3].

By 1902, when Abuelito, my grandfather, was twenty years old and moving the tassel from one side of his graduation cap to the other at the University of Notre Dame, Julio César had thousands of rain-forest Indians making him rich. They were the Huitoto, the Bora, the Andoke, the Ocaina: from fierce headhunters to doe-eyed forest folk.

offered him a scholarship to the graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, all expenses paid by the U.S. Department of State. The war in Europe was devouring gringos; American schools had been drained of young men.

A veces parece que el camino más arduo de la guerra es el que conduce a la paz.

Le dijo a Nariño que Colombia era un campo militar[6] y no una sociedad funcional. Mientras peleaba en solitario contra los abusos del gobierno, había visto cuan sobornables y corruptos podían ser los políticos y cuan incapaz había sido de controlarlos.

No sorprende que a lo largo de los años los latinoamericanos hayan aprendido a aceptar las imperfecciones humanas de sus líderes. Bolívar se lo enseñó.

En Bolívar veía al único líder que podía librar a la nación de la nauseabunda corrupción política, la insurgencia armada y la rampante ignorancia que la corroían[