"I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River."

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Source : "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

#Two Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Political Quotes

“Young women are not as likely to receive the encouragement they need from role models like teachers and parents. And they should be encouraged - studies show women are just as likely as men to win when they do run.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within.”
“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”
“The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)”
“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”
“My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2834, Delphi Classics
“The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines brightest with her child in her arms, the father when he forgives his wandering son, and the artist when he or she is drawing attention to grace, by showing the pinprick of light overcoming the darkness in the painting, or the story, or the song. The world knows darkness. Christ came into the world to show us light. I have seen it, have been blinded by it, invaded by it. I will tell its story.”
“I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.”

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