We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Roberto BolanoThe pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.
Roberto BolanoIn some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
Roberto BolanoIโm seventeen years old, my name is Juan Garcรญa Madero, and Iโm in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. Iโm an orphan, and someday Iโll be a lawyer. Thatโs what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.
Roberto Bolano