

“When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn’t take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn’t learned what I had wanted to about how language worked. I hadn’t learned anything at all.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot

“Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow

“What did you expect?”
― Stoner
― Stoner

“Since then my loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer lives and he will finally rise above the dust.”
― La casa de Asterión
― La casa de Asterión

“Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
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