Rudolfo Anaya Quotes

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

A library is also a place where love begins.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!

The germ of creation lies in violence.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.