9 Quotes & Sayings By Luis Alberto Urrea

Urrea is the author of nineteen books, including the critically acclaimed The Devil's Highway. He is the recipient of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Novel, has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received the Premio Herralde award in Spain. He was named Writer of the Year by both Esquire and The Village Voice, and was named one of America's best young writers by The Atlantic. He is also a composer, poet, playwright, editor, and translator Read more

Urrea lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as...
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Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies. Luis Alberto Urrea
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Tomas led a young woman by the hand and walked up into the foothills. Millian, the miner from Rosario, had introduced her to the patron, already buying points for himself. He was no fool. And the girl, no fool either, lifted her skirts for Tomas as he knelt before her, licking his way up her thighs -brown and sweet as candy, at the same time, tart and salty, musky, silken and cold in the warm air, refreshing as the sorbet he licked in Culiacan back when he was a student. She was amazed that this bit of her body could the great master to his knees before her. She was perhaps the most beautiful girl on that whole plain, but he did not her name and felt no need to ask. He pressed his face to her underwear, redolent with the burning scent of her, and he pulled the cotton down, over the bright points of her hips , the shadowy curve of her belly, until the fog of dark hair came into his sight, soft in the moonlight, tickling his face as he bent down to her again. He pressed his lips on the mound of her, breathing her in, tasting her like a dog, as her skirts fell over his head and her fingers pulled his head tighter to her, her legs moving apart in the dark, her beauty falling around him, his greatest gift to him, this flavor, this smell, her scent. Luis Alberto Urrea
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Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried Luis Alberto Urrea
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Our power comes from the earth Luis Alberto Urrea
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I am in the earth and the earth is in me Luis Alberto Urrea
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They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth. Luis Alberto Urrea
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Life shifting, as life does Luis Alberto Urrea
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Gringos! They have copied us again Luis Alberto Urrea