Mons

“If you're not a king you can wear a hat to be distinguished. And if you're not a king and you don't wear a hat you end up being a nobody.”
― Juan Pablo Villalobos, Down the Rabbit Hole

“Books don't have anything in them about the present, only the past and the future. This is one of the biggest defects of books. Someone should invent a book that tells you what's happening at this moment, as you read. It must be harder to write that sort of book than the futuristic ones that predict the future. That's why they don't exist. And that's why I have to go and investigate reality.”
― Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera

“It's like a competition: the one who wears the crown is the one who's made the most corpses.”
― Juan Pablo Villalobos, Down the Rabbit Hole

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars