Lucía

“Why are you pounding on my door?" Her smile told me she knew.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side; that there was almost a magical protection about them.!”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“...se sentía aliviado cuando lograba desechar su recuerdo. Y, después, perdía también el humor de preocuparse por su familia, y sólo sentía hacia ella la irritación producida por la poca atención que se le dispensaba.”
― Franz Kafka, La metamorfosis

“Life was a constant battle to preempt pain these days, and today the pain was winning.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar