There are so many islands

To belong to an island is to look outwards, understanding that the horizon is not simply a boundary between what is visible and what is invisible, what is known and unknown, but a challenge: to imagine, to yearn, to leave, to search, to return.

— From my foreword to So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans
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Nada está perdonado

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Aún tengo buenas intenciones,
esperanzas de segunda mano,
tres cuartos de corazón.

— Three poems from The Strange Years of My Life translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández