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Silvina Ocampo

The Promise

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  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    I want to be poor, Mama,” she would say to her mother.
    But what was poverty? Poverty for her was to be free, to go barefoot, to not be operated on, to climb trees, to eat unripe fruit, to play in the mud and with fire, to not have a nanny or knitted gloves on her hands. Her mother replied:
    “You don’t know what it means to be poor.”
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    To see her as more beautiful, I would always look at her in any mirror there was in a room, if there was one, or reflected in the glass of windowpanes or paintings, and never directly
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    The heat of her hands wilted everything they touched
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Remigio Luna, a mischievous but precocious child, would talk to me at the seashore like a grown man.
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    A young man touched my breasts as he passed me. “Mermaid, go back to the sea,” was the only thing I understood. This brought about an orgasm that I never want to repeat
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Women love with their eyes closed, men with their eyes open,
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    What bad luck it is for those in love who fall in love with a false image!
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    As soon as I heard his voice, I was lost
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    The only advantage of being a child is that time is doubly wide, like upholstery fabric
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Hunger distracts one from all other appetites
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