Quotes by Guatemalan Authors

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
Héctor Tobar
Never underestimate a viral trend on the Internet
Pedro Hugo García Peláez
A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun as they gallantly cast a shade over the earth. On the horizon a florid vessel of mountains trailed to the never-ending, blue as memories distant, poised as statues embroidered into time’s eternal drift.
Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.
Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.
CARLOS H. AMADO
He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.
Héctor Tobar
When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.
Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.
Francisco Goldman
A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.
Eduardo Halfon
The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.
Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
Esta dependencia del tutelaje es auto-impuesta, pues su causa no reside en falta de razón, sino que en falta de resolución y coraje para usarla sin la dirección de otro. No se atreven a pensar por sí mismos.
Warren Orbaugh
But I don't shut up and I don't die.I liveand fight, maddeningthose who rule my country.For if I liveI fight,and if I fightI contribute to the dawn.
Otto René Castillo