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«We are searching, she told herself. And we will know what we are searching for, when we find it.»

«Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches.»

«In her more fanciful moments, Mariana could be quite mystical about the power of circles: the circle in the sun, the moon, or the earth; the planets spinning through the heavens; the circle in a wheel; the dome of a church – or a wedding ring. Plato said the soul was a circle – which made sense to Mariana. Life was a circle too, wasn’t it? – from birth to death.»

«Un largo estremecimiento de pena me recorrió, a mí, una mujer que no supo nada de los hombres, ante este ser que quiso superar el miedo y la desesperación para entrar, rígido y furioso, en la eternidad. Me fui con un suspiro. »

«—¡Saber sirve para saber! A veces, con lo que sabemos podemos hacer algo, pero no es lo esencial. Quiero saber todo lo que haya que saber, por nada, por el placer, y ahora exijo que me enseñes todo lo que sabes, aunque nunca me sirva para nada. Y, además, no olvides que soy la más joven, es probable que algún día sea la última y quizá necesitaré saber cosas por razones que no se me ocurren ahora mismo.»

«Me dije que, si no habíamos muerto todas, es porque el dolor no mata.»

«—No sé hasta dónde nos llevará todo esto —le dije—. Eso es lo prodigioso: en nuestra vida absurda he inventado un imprevisto.»

«Mi memoria empieza con la ira.»

"You did the work, you drew your spell, and still at the end, you closed your eyes and hoped. When it came down to it magick was a wish, a prayer, and a little, anchoring fiction.
So was personhood, for that matter.
So was a coherent subjectivity.
And so was the courage to get up every morning and not plan to die."

«Any horror story could be said to work in two pieces: the fear of being wholly alone and of realising that one has company.»

«How, she wondered, is one supposed to grieve an absence when that absence is familiar? What, she wondered, was grief without a clear departure to regret?»

«With Santiago dead, Joseph and I had little to do in Firgesan. We didn't so much exist as much as we haunted, and with no one else to haunt, we haunted each other.»

«El nuevo dato recibía un sentido de aquel emblema y al mismo tiempo añadía al emblema un sentido nuevo. Quizás el imperio, pensó Kublai, es solo un zodiaco de fantasmas de la mente.
—El día que conozca todos los emblemas preguntó a Marco, ¿conseguiré al fin poseer mi imperio?
Y el veneciano:
—Sire, no lo creas: ese día serás tú mismo emblema entre los emblemas.»

«"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really. And then there's the thick true, smothering hate we have for those we know best. And that, Vera-baby, that's what I had for you. That's what bubbled up in me and stuck."»

«"It's not true, though, right? Dad loves us."
"He loves me," Daphne says crisply. "Your relationship with him is your own business.»

«"The grease that's in you, the filth, they saw it and so did I. I locked you up to protect everyone from your foulness."»