“Cuánta desolación. La claridad azul remachaba en el alma la monotonía de toda nuestra vida, cavilaba hedionda, taciturna.”
― El juguete rabioso
― El juguete rabioso
“It hurt too much to look back, so I kept my eyes fixed in front of me, and every time I took another step forward, I drifted farther away from the person I´d been with Master Yehudi. The best part of me was lying under the ground with him in the California desert.”
― Mr Vertigo
― Mr Vertigo
“Lo que los animaba era la fascinación de odiarse.”
― Miramar
― Miramar
“That was sixty-five springs ago, and I can still see him sitting at his desk, scribbling away at his youthful memoirs as the light poured through the window, catching the dust particles that danced around him. If I concentrate hard enough, I can still hear the breath going in and out of his lungs, I can still hear the point of his pen scratching across the paper.”
― Mr. Vertigo
― Mr. Vertigo
“He seldom thought of the past or the future, or of the disappointments and joys of either; he concentrated all his energies of which he was capable upon the moment of his work and hoped that he was at last defined by what he did.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
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