our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

- Rosario Ferre

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

- Rosario Ferre

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

- Rosario Ferre

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.

- Rosario Ferre

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogan…

- Rosario Ferre

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death t…

- Rosario Ferre

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to in…

- Rosario Ferre