“But if God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, if He is three in one in the Trinity, then God knows nothing of loneliness. God knows nothing of standing with his back to a gray morning, of dropping to his knees in the dust.”
―
Isabel Cañas,
The Hacienda
“Words can damn or bless in equal measure, and are never to be used lightly.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“When a man makes a promise, he makes it on his honor. When a witch makes a promise, they feel it in their bones.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“my world was a dark, windowless room, and he was a door.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Industry will rise and fall, men will scorch the earth and slaughter one another for emperors or republics, but they will always want drink.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Our relationship was founded on one thing, and one thing only. My world was a dark, windowless room, and he was a door.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“I savored the memory of her voice. The way her whisper held a profane, exquisite power over me, how its brush could send an aching trill down my spine.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“It is said that mortal life is empty without the love of God. That the ache of loneliness's wounds is assuaged by obedience to Him, for in serving God we encounter perfect love and are made whole. But if God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, if He is three in one in the Trinity, then God knows nothing of loneliness...God knows nothing of loneliness, because God has never tasted companionship as mortals do: clinging to one another in darkness so complete and sharp it scrapes flesh from bone, trusting one another even as the Devil's breath blooms hot on their napes.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Bitterly though I admitted it, in one respect, Vicente was perfectly right about me: I had no gift for civilizing, not as criollos like him defined it. Nor had I ever wished for it.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Juana had always been headstrong, almost churlish, but there was a wildness to her now, one that spoke of something shattered within her.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Fate had been unkind to me, but sometimes, its pettiness worked in my favor.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Should is an oddly powerful word. Shame and anger have a way of flying to it like coins to a lodestone.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“His voice was like coming home. It loosened the unease that had curled in her chest all week.” ― Isabel Cañas, Vampires of El Norte
“Even when she walked into the most sickened of houses to purify their energy with copal and smudging of burnt herbs on the walls and hearths, houses so diseased she ordered me to stand outside with the inhabitants, the voices rippled off her like water off silver, her aura as impenetrable as a warrior's gleaming shield. She was a prophet in a land that had been stripped of its gods: a healer of the sick, a beacon in the night. She reached into steel-dark clouds to control the storms of the rainy season, seizing lightning as her reins and bending them to her will to turn harvests into gold. She called the voices to heel and banished them. I was not her.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Family is all we have when things fall apart,” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“I was a sinner. I was a witch. I had sinned and would sin again, like all men. But whatever my decisions meant for life after death was between me and the Lord. All I could do was serve the home and people I loved using every gift I was born with.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“My eyes filled with tears. How scornful I had been of Mamá insisting I should marry for love. How convinced I was that I was right to be practical, to sacrifice a loving partnership like she and Papá had for an estate in the country and financial security” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“And at twenty, I faced a ticking clock: marry soon, when I was seen as fresh and virginal and desirable, or marry not at all.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Words can damn or bless in equal measure, and are never to be used lightly.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“When a man makes a promise, he makes it on his honor. When a witch makes a promise, they feel it in their bones.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“my world was a dark, windowless room, and he was a door.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Industry will rise and fall, men will scorch the earth and slaughter one another for emperors or republics, but they will always want drink.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Our relationship was founded on one thing, and one thing only. My world was a dark, windowless room, and he was a door.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“I savored the memory of her voice. The way her whisper held a profane, exquisite power over me, how its brush could send an aching trill down my spine.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“It is said that mortal life is empty without the love of God. That the ache of loneliness's wounds is assuaged by obedience to Him, for in serving God we encounter perfect love and are made whole. But if God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, if He is three in one in the Trinity, then God knows nothing of loneliness...God knows nothing of loneliness, because God has never tasted companionship as mortals do: clinging to one another in darkness so complete and sharp it scrapes flesh from bone, trusting one another even as the Devil's breath blooms hot on their napes.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Bitterly though I admitted it, in one respect, Vicente was perfectly right about me: I had no gift for civilizing, not as criollos like him defined it. Nor had I ever wished for it.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Juana had always been headstrong, almost churlish, but there was a wildness to her now, one that spoke of something shattered within her.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Fate had been unkind to me, but sometimes, its pettiness worked in my favor.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Should is an oddly powerful word. Shame and anger have a way of flying to it like coins to a lodestone.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“His voice was like coming home. It loosened the unease that had curled in her chest all week.” ― Isabel Cañas, Vampires of El Norte
“Even when she walked into the most sickened of houses to purify their energy with copal and smudging of burnt herbs on the walls and hearths, houses so diseased she ordered me to stand outside with the inhabitants, the voices rippled off her like water off silver, her aura as impenetrable as a warrior's gleaming shield. She was a prophet in a land that had been stripped of its gods: a healer of the sick, a beacon in the night. She reached into steel-dark clouds to control the storms of the rainy season, seizing lightning as her reins and bending them to her will to turn harvests into gold. She called the voices to heel and banished them. I was not her.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“Family is all we have when things fall apart,” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“I was a sinner. I was a witch. I had sinned and would sin again, like all men. But whatever my decisions meant for life after death was between me and the Lord. All I could do was serve the home and people I loved using every gift I was born with.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“My eyes filled with tears. How scornful I had been of Mamá insisting I should marry for love. How convinced I was that I was right to be practical, to sacrifice a loving partnership like she and Papá had for an estate in the country and financial security” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
“And at twenty, I faced a ticking clock: marry soon, when I was seen as fresh and virginal and desirable, or marry not at all.” ― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
