# Ana Castillo

- Quotes: 17
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo

## Books

- [I Ask the Impossible](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible.md) — 13 quotes
- [The Mixquiahuala Letters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/the-mixquiahuala-letters.md) — 4 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> ...[we] had abruptly appeared in Mexico as two snags in its patterns. Society could do no more than snip us out. How revolting we were, susceptible to ridiculw, abuse, disrespect. We would have hoped for respect as human beings, but the only respect granted a woman is that which a gentleman bestows upon the lady. Clearly, we were no ladies. What was our greatest transgression? We travelled alone. (The assumption here is that neither served as a legitimate companion for the other.) (p59)

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> Destiny is not a metaphysical confrontation with one's self, rather, society has knit its pattern so tight that a confrontation with it is inevitable. (p59)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/the-mixquiahuala-letters/destiny-is-not.md)

> The road in either direction
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> is neither longer nor shorter,
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> nor more narrow nor wider
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> than the fear that closes your heart.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/the-road-in-either.md)

> paintings
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> and books conceal more than they ever tell.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/paintings-and-books.md)

> As if we should not be scandalized
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> by surprise bombing over any city at night,
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> bombs scandalizing the sanctity of night.

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> No one is very certain about anything after a while.

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> Let us shout louder than her memory,
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> louder than the unheard cries
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> of 200,000 disappeared,
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> buried alive in pits,
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> thrown alive from planes,
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> butchered and bayoneted
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> defenseless and blindfolded
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> in the name of democracy.
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> It is real, the nightmare,
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> and without end.
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> How can we sleep?
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> How can we sleep?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/let-us-shout.md)

> do you remember the Conquest
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> of the New World? Some scholars call it the Conquest
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> of women, because that is when women became a thing to own.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/do-you-remember.md)

> We pray for joy and love to fill our hearts,
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> our days and our nights

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/we-pray-for.md)

> And I write these few
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> words
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> into the earth
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> before I forget that sadness
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> isn't everything.

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> We pray that our government's leaders
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> look into their souls,
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> that they think with the heart of a mother
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> in making the decisions that affect
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> the world's populations.

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> You chose, as I choose
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> to despair, or not
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> on a given night or day.
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> That despair turned inside out
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> you called love.

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