#fernando

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay. ↗

— Esther Williams

#i #marriage #offered #pay #price

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? ↗

— Edward Norton

#fernando #fields #flying #get #heartbroken

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#garcia #great #heroes #two #yeats

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible. ↗

— Esther Williams

#fernando #i #invisible #married #once

With a combination of proper lighting and climate control he managed to achieve a different ecological niche in each gallery. In the African section, where the imbrications of Augustine, Mafouz and Okri lay decomposing, he grew sorghum and Dioscorea yams. In the Chinese gallery where the Tao Te Ching and countless Confucian annotations moldered, he grew rice, crab apples and barley. Over the poems of Neruda and Borges himself, he grew potatoes. Each plant in this new Eden he lovingly tainted with the virus of civilization - from the short story "Resurrection ↗

— Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

#love