16 Quotes by Yuri Herrera

They want to live forever but still can’t see that for that to work they need to change color and number. But it’s already happening.

Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn’t be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn’t being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.

Todo lo bueno es un pedazo de algo horrible.

All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it’s all a mystery what each will become.

You are a door, not the one who walks through.

That’s why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they’re shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.

People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing’s wrong, they just leave them there, and then one day they go and scratch someone’s eyes out.