Debbie

“Neruda fell asleep right away, and woke ten minutes later, as children do, when we least expected it. He appeared in the living room refreshed, and with the monogram of the pillowcase imprinted on his cheek.
    "I dreamed about the woman who dreams," he said.
    "Matilde wanted him to tell her his dream.
    "I dreamed she was dreaming about me," he said.
    "That's right out of Borges," I said.
    He looked at me in disappointment.
    "Has he written it already?"
    "If he hasn't, he'll write it sometime," I said. "It will be one of his labyrinths.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

“It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative fiction to survive without them. And yet there are almost none in real life, unless you happen to live in the wrong area. Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery? And what is it that attracts us? The crime, or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders