Avelina

“To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Vani Sarca, señores. la mujer que, cuando repartieron la integración social, estaba en casa leyendo a Salinger.”
― Alice Basso, Scrivere è un mestiere pericoloso

“Dele tiempo, señora: verá que anda de reventón. Ya sé que tiene cinco años, pero le digo, cada vez empiezan más temprano con el sexo y las drogas”,”
― Raquel Castro, El ataque de los zombis [Parte mil quinientos]

“Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favours, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell