Lives fit into a thousandth of a flash across the firmament, because time does not exist.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting for Robert Capa)
People believe that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes the horror is off to the side, in the lost look on the face a woman who’s just been raped, as she limps away alone within the ruins, trying to keep her head down. Gerda and Capa were not aware of this yet. They were too young. And that was their first conflict. They still believed war had its romantic side.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting for Robert Capa)
Wars are full of people who can only look back. Because sometimes life twists itself so much that one is left to sort it out however they can.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting for Robert Capa)
When she said those things, he felt as if only her body was close to his.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting for Robert Capa)
We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body, but what is inscribed in the man.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting for Robert Capa)
Organized groups are just a bunch of excuses. Only the action of an individual holds a moral meaning, at least in this life.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting For Robert Capa)
When it comes down to it, not all boxing matches are fought inside the ring.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting For Robert Capa)
She thought the fear had passed on, but no. That was one thing she learned. That fear, the real kind, once it has installed itself into the body, never goes away. It remains there, crouched in the form of apprehension, though there is no longer any motive, and one finds themselves safe in a city of rooftops with dormers, free of jail cells where someone can be beaten to death. It was as if there was always a step missing on the staircase.
— Susana Fortes (Waiting For Robert Capa)
