29 quotes
She lay hidden, as if she were the very darkness of night. (first line of "Rivers")
Happiness (1991)
I think I am a bit like Mistral: always a foreigner, always from somewhere else. (2015)
translators are the messengers of the spirit. You bring a message to someone who does not understand the original.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Spanish is not only the language of my soul, but it’s the language of the memory, of my emotions, the first language I began to write and to think in.
Maybe once you are an exile, you always are an exile. Always missing somewhere else, always carrying a bit from here and a bit from there and always with a bit of a broken heart. (p280)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)
As a child I would always be asked whether I was Jewish or Chilean and, thus, my identity became always conflicted, always a matter of either/or and seldom both. ("Jewish Women in Latin America")
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
I don't understand how equality can be dangerous. How could it make someone...anyone...angry? (p62)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)
I think that memory is a form of translation. What motivates the artistic expression of poets and fiction writers, essayists and painters is memory. But memory is also very complicated because it consists of what one chooses to remember.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
"Yes, I am a refugee. And it is a beautiful word, a beautiful thing. I am an exile. That means I am a traveler of the world and I belong to nothing but the things I love." (p454)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)