L. Moreaux’s Reviews > Pedro Páramo > Status Update

"Some towns reek of misfortune. You recognize them with a quick taste of their stale air, which is thin and worn out like all things old."

"My mother , who spent her childhood here in this town, as well as the best years of her life, and yet was unable to return here to die. So she had me come in her place. It's strange, Dorotea, how I never even got to see the sky. At least that, perhaps, hasn't changed from the way she knew it."- Juan Preciado