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“With a clear conscience, I accused Mother of not loving me. I hope I won’t have to accuse you of the same thing. Because if you were her darling, I was yours. This forcefield has locked the three of us together from the very beginning.”
― Agustín Gómez Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

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“From the moment Mother first told me ‘’ I never wanted you’’ I undertook to go back in my past to a time before I was born. And I began to understand. She started resenting me the day my fetus swelled her body too much for her to bend elegantly over her damned rosebuch. But I understood that my desire for revenge was too facile, too romantic. I have gone further. I have reached love, or rather the death of love. A commonplace tragedy.”
― Agustín Gómez Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

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“Did Mother ever stop to think that those ‘’shadows’’ fell on me while I was still in her womb? That it was I who had chosen to leave them behind? Did she understand that I put off opening my eyes as an act of courage, so as not to mix up the world I was coming from with the one I was to live in?”
― Agustín Gómez Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

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“I have never loved Mother, I know. My feelings for her were quite the reverse. But when I think about it, a sort of deep anxiety knots my stomach: The image of an octopus in my dreams. I don’t know why( Maybe just because she is dead at last).”
― Agustín Gómez Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

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“Still, you had the feeling that the house was trying not to complain, trying hard to keep its pain a secret, so as not to burden us, its dear occupants… but it complained all the same, it couldn’t help it. The pain rose from the depths of its foundations. Signs of the disease could be seen with the naked eye: a greenish ooze was always running down the walls, the paint was flacking as if the house were peeling, or rather rotting. It was practically a corpse.”
― Agustín Gómez Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

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