13 Quotes by Armando Lucas Correa

The couple’s physical decline became increasingly obvious with each passing hour. The old man, immobile in bed; Mrs. Adler, all alone, watching as the love of her life – her great support – slipped away slowly as this ship sailed to the island that was to be our salvation. This was the only answer they could find at an age when all you could hope for was the peace to be able to say good-bye.

The pain of loss transforms us.

This time she wasn’t facing racial cleansing that aimed to create physical perfection, size and color to achieve purity. Now it was a cleansing of ideas. It was people’s minds they were afraid of, not their physical traits. The doubts expressed by a crazy philosopher from her own country whom she used to read flitted through her mind: “Is man God’s mistake, or God man’s mistake?

I learned that, to survive, it was best to live in the present. On this island, there was no past or future. Your destiny was today.