Felipe González

“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”

“Good literature should disturb the status quo, not preach.”

“One could say I understand the city as an entity that shapes those who inhabit it, even though, in the process, it can become an anthropophagous being, merciless—especially toward the less privileged.”

“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“Latin America’s right-wing has no shame in throwing itself at the highest bidder — their morals shift to match whoever’s holding the purse strings.”

“Beware of nuns and priests, they will make you doubt your faith.”

“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

“The right side of history is with Palestine.”

“Gaza is a wound that will never stop bleeding.”

“That apartment was the only property he truly owned—his own as much as a rental can be.”

“The biggest mistake of the average wage earner is forgetting that no company has or will ever have a human heart.”

“Overcome by that mix of cowardice and curiosity typical of 1980s horror movies, where we all knew the protagonists shouldn’t go that way, he knew he shouldn’t look—but he did.”

“Neofascism dresses up in makeup, glamour, and pure spectacle.”

“In the end, it's just everyday life and forgetting, because there's nothing fantastic about people having to die every day.”

“She was such a beautiful, delicate apparition that she was on the verge of reciting a verse by Huidobro or Neruda right there, dedicated, by the way, to the little rose.”

“…the Moon is there, up above, still, shining, hiding every wound that time has marked her body.”

“Bad education aren't just a problem for those at the bottom or in the middle; they're also a problem for those at the top, who are certain of their untouchability.”