Pedro Páramo Quotes

"[W]ith all the money we spent to bury your grandfather, and the tithes we've paid to the church, we don't have anything left." (7.12)

The road rose and fell. It rises or falls depending on whether you're coming or going. If you are leaving, it's uphill; but as you arrive it's downhill. (2.2)

And he lowered his stick against the burros for no reason at all, because they had been far ahead of us, guided by the descending trail. (2.38)

I wondered if she were crazy. But by now I wasn't thinking at all. (5.22)

As she closed the door, her sobs began; he could hear them for a long time, mixed with the sound of the rain. (8.7)

"Don't ask him for anything. Just what's ours. What he should have given me but never did… Make him pay, son, for all those years he put us out of his mind." (1.3)

My mother always hated having her picture taken. She said photographs were a tool of witchcraft. And that may have been so, because hers was riddled with pinpricks, and at the location of the heart...

She always hated Pedro Páramo. "Doloritas! Did you tell them to get my breakfast?" […]"I wonder how many times your mother heard that call? 'Dona Doloritas, this is cold. It won't do.' How many...