Nothingmancer

“The bear, it emerged, drank only peach schnapps, which it sipped from delicate thimble-size glasses.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Me puse dura porque el miedo hace eso; o te acojona y te deja vacía, temblando en los rincones de una casa que pese a estar llena de ratas te parece un milagro, o te hace crecer los ovarios. Te los hace crecer hasta que son más grandes que la casa, más grandes que las ratas, carajo, más grandes que la mancha de sangre en el vestido de encaje de mi chamaca. Casi tan grandes como la selva, pero siempre más pequeños que las lágrimas de una hija.”
― Elaine Vilar Madruga, El cielo de la selva

“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper like the need to survive. Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become. The family process works towards sealing off the world. Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate. I tell Murray that ignorance and confusion can’t possibly be the driving forces behind family solidarity. What an idea, what a subversion. He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan. The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What a heartless theory, I say. But Murray insists it’s true.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians