“When there’s too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don’t pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I’m able to say.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“He had rid himself so fiercely of memory, language, the capacity to find meaning that it seemed obvious the hatred he had for himself, for his own skin, for his moods, for his thoughts and words, for the brutal corner of the world that had enveloped him.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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