Isabella

“...there was fuck-all to do until the discotheque opened...”
― Michel Houllebecq

“Men never notice the overcalculating that women do. They think things happen "for some weird reason" while women sing songs and do backbends and dance elaborate moves to make those things happen.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“Thomas says he doesn't know Vilalba very well because they usually just stay at the house for endless conversations, punctuated by laughter and complaints, long lunches and drawn-out dinners. He says for him Spain is just people in his family who love each other, who eat and drink and cut each other off in conversation until night falls.

I say: Is that the reason you said something of the foreigner?
He says: Yes, dark eyes, olive skin. And the feeling of never quite belonging, of being a person uprooted, as if, maybe, who knows, a sense of belonging is something one inherits.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“I miss you', and I felt all over again, incrusted in my flesh, my need for her. Joy is such a rare thing. The following morning, I took the plane back to Madrid.”
― Michel Houllebecq