# I Ask the Impossible

- Author: [Ana Castillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo.md)
- Quotes: 13
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible

## Quotes

> 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.

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

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/no-one-is-very.md)

> 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.

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

> 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.

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

> 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.

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

> How does it feel to be cruel to a woman?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/how-does-it-feel.md)

> And life is in my hands,
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> suckling at my breast,
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> thrives on the rhythm of my beating heart,
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> warmth of my throbbing belly.

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

> Today you try what suits you and when it don't-
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> move on, move on, move on.

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