Electra

“People are the same all over the world, I imagine, people who react like that to their countries conspiracies: turning them into tales that are told, like children’s fables, and also into place in the memory or the imagination, a place where we go as tourists, to revive nostalgia or to try to find something we’ve lost.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Shape of the Ruins

“You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You