Sanja

“In this country, in one way or another, everyone had bean, was, or would be part of the regime. "The worst thing that can happen to a Dominican is to be intelligent or competent," he had once heard Agustín Cabral say ...and the words had been etched in his mind: "Because sooner or later Trujillo will call upon him to serve the regime, or his person, and when he calls, one is not permitted to say no." [Agustín Cabral] was proof of this truth....As Estrella Sadhalá always said, the Goat had taken from people the sacred attribute given to them by God: their free will.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

“El sordo siempre cree que los que bailan están locos.”
― Jorge Bucay, Déjame que te cuente

“Your mother's cunt has a peculiar tubular shape!' he yelled. 'Nonetheless, I tolerate its effluvium and enthusiastically lick its inner folds whenever she demands!”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul