Kathleen Alcalá Quotes

born 1954 United States

Kathleen Alcalá (born 29 August 1954) is the author of a short story collection, three novels set in the American Southwest and nineteenth-century Mexico, and a collection of essays.

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A slight breeze entered the window and stirred the single rose in the vase on the table, causing the edges of the petals to quiver like the lips of a lover. (p 117)

Treasures in Heaven (2000)

Once you start talking about people as individuals, which I try to do in my fiction, it's impossible to say that any group of people can be excluded from full human rights.

Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers (2003)

Although his name would be forgotten, his family and belongings scattered, the ideas he helped to perpetuate would live on. The seeds of human dignity had been planted and were not easily stamped out. (p177)

Treasures in Heaven (2000)

Even the doves were in mourning. The trees seemed to sigh at her leave-taking, and the windows of each building looked, to her, like sorrowful eyes. (first lines)

Treasures in Heaven (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kathleen Alcalá (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.