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“I mean, I hope you're happy, But the sky is still the sky without you, And I'm not surprised by that anymore.”

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“Most of the pilgrims I met in Mexico were running from something: financial woes, a pissed-off spouse, or a life that hit a dead end. Regardless of the reasons for the journey, the Margarita Road will take you far from all those problems. Still, there are no guarantees. A funny thing about the past--it can catch up to you even on a remote tropical seashore. Sometimes you bring it with you.”

“For some time now, people like me had been drifting south, ending up in Mexico with Jimmy Buffett songs playing in their heads. They left behind mortgages, failed marriages, and a lifetime of disappointments. Some of them came looking for a fresh start, and some were searching for a place to hide. A few were pulled by a dream they could never quite understand, until they walked down the beach to that crystal-clear water for the first time.”

“Oh sure, there was a gringo gulch where the sunbirds lived in the winter months. But if you avoided them, you might hook up with the small community of Margarita Road refugees: a group of wanderers from up north; a crazy Irish sailor; a few Italians; some young, fast-living kids from Mexico City; and one beautiful girl from Brazil. All in all, it was a nice place to stay—or hide, if that’s what you needed.”

“He kept ordering beers and making what he thought were humorous jokes about how Mexicans sleep all day, all the while telling me how great my life was without a ‘real job.’ After an hour or so of this, I was ready to pour the next drink over his head.”

“Come si fa a dare valore a una cosa che può finire in qualsiasi momento, una cosa così fragile? Si dà valore a ciò che ha forza, e la vita non ne ha; a ciò che è indistruttibile, e la vita non lo è. Tant'è vero che può arrivare qualcuno a chiederti di sacrificarla, la tua vita, per qualcosa che ha più forza. La patria, per esempio. [...] Nessuno ama l'intero genere umano. Non si può piangere sulle esistenze interrotte di miliardi di individui a partire da sei milioni di anni fa. Non era forse questo il patto originario: che ogni esistenza sulla Terra dovesse interrompersi, prima o poi? Sentire con le proprie orecchie il nitrito sgomento di un cavallo strazia più del pensiero di un uomo sconosciuto, morto perché di morti è fatta la Storia. Non esiste pietà universale, solo l'impietosirsi davanti al destino di un singolo essere umano.”