He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. . . . 'Woe is me. ' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.
I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.