Ira Bespalova

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Un día la besé en francés. Ella se limitó a bostezar en sueco. Yo la odié un poco en inglés y le hice un además obsceno en italiano. Ella fue al baño y dio un portazo en ruso. Cuando salió, yo le guiñé un ojo en chino y ella me sacó la lengua en sánscrito. Acabamos haciendo el amor en esperanto.”
― Fernando del Paso, Palinuro de México

“I guess most jokes have some truth in them and that's what makes them funny.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers