Quotes from Susana Fortes

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

We're born with a mapped-out route. This one, not that one. Who you dream with. Who you love. It's one or the other. You choose without choosing. That's how it is. Each of us travels on their own path. Besides, how do you love someone without truly knowing who they are? How do you travel that distance when there's all that you don't know about the other?

Her mother always said that dressing properly could save one's life

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Fear isn't a bad travel companion. Sometimes, it saves your life.

Parlare con lui m'infondeva una piacevole sensazione di familiarità, come accade con certi personaggi secondari della nostra infanzia: il gestore del negozio di fumetti, il venditore di caramelle... nonostante il tempo trascorso questi individui sono incapaci di considerarci come gli strani adulti che siamo diventati, e continuano invece a guardarci come i bambini che non abbiamo mai smesso di essere.

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.