Gilda Olvidado

Gilda Olvidado (born August 9, 1957 in Cebu City, Cebu is a Filipina television writer and melodram novelist. Quotes Only frustrated people smoke too much and only lonely people are frustrated. I can never get a zipper to close. I didn't think I'd be true to a man again as long as I lived... Gilda (1946) They ain’t been here long ’nough. They just barely human. Maybe not even. They suck up the world, don’t taste it. The intimacy of her mother’s hands and the warmth of the water lulled the Girl into a trance of sensuality she never forgot. Now the blood washing slowly down her breastbone and soaking into the floor below was like that bath—a cleansing. The Gilda Stories (1991) Only frustrated people smoke too much and only lonely people are frustrated. They ain’t been here long ’nough. They just barely human. Maybe not even. They suck up the world, don’t taste it. External links Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Novelists from the Philippines Category:Writers