"Divisadero" Quotes
A story of family, love, and the impact of the past on the present, told through the interconnected lives of three characters.
fiction | 273 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
It's not just the view. It's the light. The golden light. It makes the land feel like it's on fire.
We live in a world where our only common language is loss. We grieve as if we have been cursed, as if we've given ourselves a language to describe what we have lost.
To be a child is to see the world in absolute terms - it's either this or it's that - and the raw exposure of a child is what shocks one about the death of a child.
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories.
That is the thing about great literature. You are never alone with it.
She felt that she had already lived several lives. And it was not only that she had been a child, then a woman, then a mother, but that she had lived through the different aspects of life.
The young are just the old with time removed.
A life is four or five days that change everything.
The only time we could be ourselves was when we were alone.
The world was a place to see, be seen, and be entertained by.
