Maya Mudambi

“Hoping is what people do when they’re too lazy to do anything else. People”
― Tim Winton, Cloudstreet

“There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“the Lord always answers the prayers of those who wish for nothing to change.”
― Juan Gómez Bárcena, The Sky Over Lima

“Who gives a damn about fripperies and bourgeois sentiment when the final battle of the class war is being waged all around them? Only the wealthy experience that sort of emotion, those existential chasms and desponds, because when men have too much free time, when they do not employ their vital energy in demolishing the walls that divide them from their brothers, then all of that force is used to burrow into themselves, to grub away at themselves and finally concoct all those delicate, artificial emotions.”
― Juan Gómez Bárcena, The Sky Over Lima