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This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time. ↗

— Justin Torres

#puerto-rico #spanish

Te respiro —susurró—. Eres mi aire. Lo eres todo ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#spanish #spanish

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo. ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #spanish

La verdad nos hace libres, pero el amor vence al miedo ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#spanish

El hombre martirizado por sus demonios se venga ciegamente en su prójimo ↗

— Franz Kafka

#spanish #spanish

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage... ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#moon #travel #spanish

La amaba lo suficiente para saber que ella estaría mejor sin él. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#spanish #spanish

(...) pero perseverar en obstinado desconsuelo es una conducta de impía terquedad; es un pesar indigno del hombre; muestra una voluntad rebelde al Cielo, un corazón débil, un alma sin resignación, una inteligencia limitada e inculta. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#inteligencia #spanish #spanish

Queridísima Julianne: Gracias por tu regalo, de valor incalculable. Lo único valioso que tengo para darte a cambio es mi corazón. Es tuyo, Gabriel ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#spanish #spanish

Das por sentado que mis anteriores relaciones fueron satisfactorias, pero te equivocas. Tú me diste algo que nadie me había dado antes: sexo y amor al mismo tiempo. Eres la única de mis parejas que ha sido mi amante en el auténtico sentido de la palabra. ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#spanish #spanish