Gustavo Pérez

“Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Muchas veces me ha pasado eso: luchar insensatamente contra un obstáculo que me impide hacer algo que juzgo necesario o conveniente, aceptar con rabia la derrota y finalmente, un tiempo después, comprobar que el destino tenía razón.”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“I make them feel like they’re still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases, which, most of the time and especially in the Clinic, don’t hardly exist at all. With me, they feel they’re still part of the human race.”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God

“You can’t save us,” I said, “you can’t stop the process. That’s why we’re going into psychiatry: we’re trying to save ourselves.” “From what?” “FROM BEING JERKS WHO’D LOOK UP TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU!” screamed the Runt. “What?” asked the Leggo shakily, “what are you saying?” I felt that he was trying to understand, and I knew he couldn’t but that he was crying inside because we’d pushed the button that had him hearing the tapes of all his failings, as father and son, and I said as kindly as possible, “What we’re saying is that the real problem this year hasn’t been the gomers, it’s been that we didn’t have anyone to look up to.”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God