Angel

“When I look back on that time, it’s with the strangest stew of emotions: love, longing, terror, horror, regret, and the deep sweetness only those who’ve been near death can know. I think it’s how Adam and Eve must have felt. Surely they looked back at Eden, don’t you think, as they started barefoot down the path to where we are now, in our glum political world of bullets and bombs and satellite TV? Looked past the angel guarding the shut gate with his fiery sword? Sure. I think they must have wanted one more look at the green world they had lost, with its sweet water and kind-hearted animals. And its snake, of course.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Los niños extremadamente inteligentes, me digo con cierta indulgencia, no leen los libros que los adultos los obligan a leer: no quieren ser extremadamente inteligentes, pues querer ser inteligente es extremadamente poco inteligente. Los niños inteligentes dominan a la perfección el arte de hacerse los tontos y así llegan a la adultez absolutamente impunes, perfectamente libres de los severos castigos que suele deparar la inteligencia.”
― Alejandro Zambra, No leer

“Gozamos con el espectáculo de nuestra propias destrucción porque pensamos que somos inmortales. En nuestro delirio, destruimos a los otros creyendo que así seremos por fin eternos.
Así es como iniciará el colapso.
Mientras tanto, tú y yo seguiremos leyendo.”
― Martha Riva Palacio Obon, Orfeo

“There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation...”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories