Jay Hernandez Quotes

“Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.”

“What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.”

“Yvette is a woman who looks like a church bell. Her copper body curves with purpose, angles on a chair as if from a tower overlooking a village by the sea. Her bones are strong everywhere, in her cheeks, her shoulders, her hands. They are made from something more durable like iron or brass. When she smiles, it is as if a bell has been struck, as if music has entered the world the way God intended: at noon by the sea.”

“It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.”

“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.”

“I don't feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it's our turn we join them in exploring the universe.”

“I love the smell of rain and growing things.”

“Sometimes I just need to be alone with what I believe in.”

“Living in a world: where to be born, is a mere by mention. To be living, a story. Then to die, our eternal; restart!”

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”