Mons

“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

“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

“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

“In a night such as is this to me, a man lives-lives a whole century of life-nor would I forgo this rapturous delight for that of a whole century of ordinary existence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Balloon Hoax - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story