1. “I’m thinking,” broke in Pare Crispin, “I’m thinking of going back to my old trade. I was a carpenter once, see. And before that, I was a fisherman. I can go to Sumagui and work there.”

-N.V.M Gonzalez, Hunger in Barok

2. Baltog waited for a long, long time. Finally, when the moon was bright, the man-eating boar came snorting and tearing crops as it went along. Baltog hid under the bushes. When the boar came within reach, he sprang at it. Man and beast tumbled to the ground in mortal combat. -Ibalon

3. “But Ama,” he said to Father, “I have a fear of the river.” “The river?” Father asked. “Has it not always been like this?” “Yes,” Ama Daniw replied, “but here is news. The Bonga, way upstream, has already overflowed its banks. And the Bonga flows into the Barok…” “There will be a big flood then?” Father asked. “There will be a big flood,” Ama Daniw declared. - N.V.M Gonzalez, The Land and the Rain (An Excerpt from The Winds of April)