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I felt luxuriously involved in an insolvable mystery, my favorite way to feel. I didn’t really want to understand, preferring romance to sound reasoning.
“I don't want to impose a retrospective clarity of will on what had certainly been months immersed in a flailing muddle, but if there isn't some truth to the narratives of progress with which we sometimes try to frame our lives, however rooted in desperate delusion, we'd never be able to speak them, certainly not silently to ourselves, with any conviction.”
― The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
― The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
“The wide sky overhead can seem like an element we're deeply submerged in, one that overflows the mountains rimming the horizon as if these were the walls of an extinct volcano's vast crater, inside of which has arisen a city... The night sky, sponging up light from the city below, is blackish phosphorescence, in which low clouds drift like mesoglea. When the moon is out in late afternoon it looms low over streets and buildings, enormous and pale yellow in the softer blue sky, like a ghostly school bus coming right at us.”
― The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
― The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
“Neoteny, the choice not to metamorphose. If it was good for the axolotl, then it was good for Consuelo.”
― ¡Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card
― ¡Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card
“You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad.”
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“We'll never know the exact number of victims of the Dirty War [Guerra Sucia]. My novel is noir, pulp fiction, but it's based on a real story.”
― Velvet Was the Night
― Velvet Was the Night
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