Maria Hammon

“We are suspicious of a stranger who tells us his life story.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“The habits of our lives make us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“It’s only with mild surprise I find I don’t so much read anymore, but rather teeter, wonder, take flight, like Pascal, like Madeline, like Bemelmans, like Lamorisse, like my daughters. Like Robert. Like anyone who has ever started or finished a book, or a love affair, or confused the two, in sweet anticipation of the fall.”
― Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book