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“Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a little person dying alone and in pain, you may not remember or know that you are little. If you are in enough pain, you may not remember who or what you are; you may know only your suffering, which is immense… What decides – common sense? Can common sense dictate such things?”
― Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Vicente piensa que son los poetas y no los narradores los que deben capturar absolutamente todos los detalles de cada experiencia vivida, pero no para contarlos, no para vociferarlos en un relato, sino para inscribirlos, por así decirlo, en su sensibilidad, en su mirada: para vivirlos, en una palabra”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser padre consiste en dejarse ganar hasta el día en que la derrota sea verdadera.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno