Stefania

“I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“And when she said, What do you want to be when you grow up? some kid said, A good burglar, and we all laughed, and she said, Why not an anarchist?--that's a burglar with self-respect.”
― Joseph McElroy, Women and Men

“Vio el mar por primera vez. En la distancia el mar era azul.
Incuestionablemente azul. Sintió la felicidad de comprobar. Corrió desnudo por la arena de una playa sin turistas hasta que las olas le salpicaron la cara. Se detuvo, sospechando algo terrible, tomó entre sus manos un poco de mar. Y lo temido ocurrió. En el hueco de sus manos, el mar dejaba de ser azul, era sólo agua transparente. Acortar la distancia para destruir el encanto.”
― José Sbarra, Plástico cruel

“The Campus laundry has a sign, like most laundries do, POSITIVELY NO DYEING. I drove all over town with a green bedspread until I came to Angel’s with his yellow sign, YOU CAN DIE HERE ANYTIME.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories