Julia Alvarez Quotes

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It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

Julia Alvarez
We make our art
out of ourselves and what we make makes us.

Julia Alvarez
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

Julia Alvarez
And every year a day as yet unknown
which I won't be here to enjoy goes by,
which is why now I celebrate each one.

Julia Alvarez
Unless I write things down I never know
what I think, no less feel, about the world.
...
In short I don't know I'm alive unless
I'm writing as I'll only be convinced
— when I am scribbled on some stony epitaph —
that I am gone... and the rest is silence.

Julia Alvarez
A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, it will be the past, and she doesn't want to be the only one left to tell their story.

Julia Alvarez
He was the kind of guy who could kiss you behind your ear and make you feel like you'd just had kinky sex.

Julia Alvarez
We learn through what we love to love the world —
which might be all that we are here to do.

Julia Alvarez
I felt a flush of embarrassment to be caught shopping when I should have been plotting a revolution.

Julia Alvarez
Imagine, a whole community spends three months, six, a year, preparing and focusing on its young girls. Quite an investment of time and energy, and it makes the girls feel supported, loved, encouraged to be the new up-and-coming leaders in the community. Positive things happen at a time in life when young girls are especially vulnerable.

Julia Alvarez
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

Julia Alvarez
I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Julia Alvarez