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“Everything was lost, I had fallen off the map: the disorientation of being in the wrong apartment, with the wrong family, was wearing me down, so I felt groggy and punch-drunk, weepy almost, like an interrogated prisoner prevented from sleeping for days. Over and over, I kept thinking I’ve got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can’t.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“We were scared, but fear doesn’t look the same as desperation.”
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
“They're cleaning the graffiti! There were some that were really beautiful, no other city in the world had graffiti like Barcelona's. But just try to explain to those brutes what art is. The fuck. They ruin everything.”
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
“A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists.”
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
“At that age there’s music playing in your head all the time, as if a radio were transmitting from the nape of your neck, inside your skull. Then one day that music starts to grow softer, or it just stops. When that happens, you’re no longer a teenager”
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
― The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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