Stacia

“To erase the very memory of the photograph, I filled out my tax return: I have often found that soul-destroying tasks help one to live.”
― Amélie Nothomb, Une Forme de vie

“Anyone who met Niki in passing might get the impression that love was easy for her, a switch she could turn on or off, people who came and went, people she loved and stopped loving. It could seem like a simple mechanism with a narrow register: on or off, black or white, love or hate. In reality it was the opposite: she was an ocean of feelings, with more gradients and nuances than she could handle, as if the full cast of Greek gods and all the emotions and states they represented had been crammed in behind her eyelids. There was an intimate racket in there, never ending.”
― Ia Genberg, The Details

“She lies truthfully, like any good writer,' Robert answered, 'and if she lies truthfully, it's because she knows what she's talking about.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Una suerte pequeña [A Little Luck]

“Just like buying books, the ownership of books was distinct from other types of ownership, more like a loan that might run out or be transferred onto someone else at the drop of a hat, for example as soon as anybody showed an interest in the title or author in question.”
― Ia Genberg, The Details