Maria

“experimentaba cada tanto uno de esos éxtasis repentinos, sutiles y tal vez microquímicos —pequeñas luces centelleando en lo más hondo del tejido cerebral— que ocurren cuando encontramos finalmente las palabras para expresar un sentimiento muy simple que, sin embargo, había PERMANECIDO innombrable”
― Valeria Luiselli

“In this house, the search for happiness appears to be complete; or rather, in the chaotic mountain of jumble it is always somehow at hand, the easiest of all things to find. The foreground is entirely human here:the rooms may have been neglected, but the people haven't been”
― Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays

“To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“...A set of beliefs, and I imagined catalogs from which one could order such sets, like furniture, believes that wouldn't collapse under one's full weigth, big sturdy reliable sideboards of belief...”
― Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life