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Chapter 114

Can't go on reading this book.

"They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it."

"I had thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply. But I was wrong.
The rules, they were already inside us."

"and because I am your son, I said, "Sorry." Because I am your son, my apology had become, by then, an extension of myself. It was my hello."

"Two languages cancel each other out, suggests Barthes, beckoning a third. Sometimes our words are few and far between, or simply ghosted. In which case the hand, although limited by the borders of skin and cartilage, can be that third language that animates the tongue falters."

"I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours."
"If we are lucky, the end of the sentence is where we might begin. If we are lucky, something is passed on, another alphabet written in the blood, sinew, and neuron; ancestors charging their kin with the silent propulsion to fly south, to turn toward the place in the narrative no one was meant to outlast."

This is like a student's writing trying to show they know a lot of vocabulary (adjectives). Where was the editor?? Who approved of this style?

"El primer paso para cruzar el bosque es saber dónde empieza."

"It will always be a woman who saves us, we know that now. The protections of men are only ever flimsy and self-serving."

"It's just I am done with love. But there is nowhere else to go."

"- Hace más de veinte años de eso.
- Lo sé, pero sigue siendo un tesoro."

"También a mí me gustaría que, llegado el momento, pudiera marcharme envuelta en las palabras que la persona amada me ha dedicado a lo largo de toda mi vida."

"Había letras bonitas pero más frías que el hielo, mientras que otras, a pesar de sus imperfecciones, eran tan cálidas como una hoguera en pleno invierno."

"A cada estación su sabor: amargor de primavera, vinagre en verano, picante de otoño y grasa para el invierno." (p.108)