Roya

“When something good happens to you at that age, you can’t settle with the notion that it’s a one-off. You want it to be the beginning of a tradition. That’s how I felt about that night: I wanted it already to be a memory, a foundational one, a first evening of many similar evenings. I wanted future nostalgia, a rear-view, years-old fondness for something that had literally just happened.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“Compliments made you supplicant, equal, and master all at once. Supplicant because you are below, admiring; equal because you have the same taste; and master because you are bestowing your approval.”
― Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

“Sometimes it is the evidence, the spectacle of another person’s grief that harrows you, more than the loss itself.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings