“Scientists have discovered, it's true, that employing positive illusions will help you achieve your goals. But I have slowly come to believe that far better things await outside of the tunnel vision of your goals.”
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“Leer es cubrirse la cara, pensé.
Leer es cubrirse la cara. Y escribir es mostrarla”
― Ways of Going Home
Leer es cubrirse la cara. Y escribir es mostrarla”
― Ways of Going Home
“She has always had a secret liking for this part of the embroidery, the ‘wrong’ side, congested with knots, striations of silk and twists of thread. How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.”
― The Marriage Portrait
― The Marriage Portrait
“Sabía poco, pero al menos sabía eso: que nadie habla por los demás. Que aunque queramos contar historias ajenas terminamos siempre contando la historia propia”
― Ways of Going Home
― Ways of Going Home
“We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.”
― I Am, I Am, I Am
― I Am, I Am, I Am
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