Where We Come From Quotes

“Being older doesn't mean you stop making mistakes, it only means your mistakes can hurt more people”
― Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

“He wants to know what it's like to be illegal not because you're doing something you're not supposed to, but only because you want to be with your family and because they want to keep you safe.”
― Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

“Like opening an album or looking at a framed photo, these images make us want to believe we know everything there is to know about a person, a stranger or even someone in our family, our mother or father, but of course we never do.”
― Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

“Nina wanted to show him where they came from, but where they came from is nothing more that that -- where they came from. It isn't where his story ends; only where it begins.”
― Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From

“For them everything had a simple solution. IF there was a problem that could be fixed, by whatever means, then that could be fixed, by whatever means, then there was nothing to worry about. They were geniuses of the world when it came to finding another way. And it if turned out the problem had no solution, no way of it being mended or substituted with something else, no way of being glued or duct-taped, then there was nothing to worry about either. Ni modo, they said and moved on. They never stopped to consider what would happen next, after the solved or unsolved problem brought a whole new set of problems. Then what? For that they had no solutions. They came with so little it was only ever about today, and tomorrow was tomorrow, another day to worry about when it arrived, if it arrived. Life, when one lived on this side of the river, was almost never that easy. But try explaining that to your cleaning woman.”
― Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From