"If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear."
- Roberto Bolaño
"And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove around the boat trying to find young Reiter's body, with no success, until they had to come up for air..."
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."
"Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming."
"No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance."
"The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty min..."
"Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I said. That you end up being friends with writers. And friendship, treasure though it..."