Roya

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

“I resumed the life of a citizen. It took me far from the world I had known, yet Robert was ever in my consciousness; the blue star in the constellation of my personal cosmology.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“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

“El mundo se cae a pedazos y casi siempre todo se va a la mierda y casi siempre dañamos a las personas que queremos o ellas nos dañan a nosotros irremediablemente y no parece haber motivos para albergar ninguna clase de esperanza, pero al menos esta historia termina bien, termina aquí, con la escena de estos dos poetas chilenos que se miran a los ojos y que lanzan risotadas y que por ningún motivo quieren irse de ese bar, así que piden otra ronda de cerveza.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno