“No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been… — Roberto Bolaño Chance Copy Share Image
“Gray mattresses with red and blue stripes in something that looks like a hallway or an overly long waiting room. In any… — Roberto Bolaño Living together Copy Share Image
“When I was an adolescent I wanted to be a Jew, a Bolshevik, black, homosexual, a junkie, half-crazy, and--the crowning touch-- a… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“And then we would leave, and by that time it would already be dark, and as we headed to the bus or… — Roberto Bolaño Mexico city Copy Share Image
“It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.” — Roberto Bolaño Love Copy Share Image
“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image.… — Roberto Bolaño Car accident Copy Share Image
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.… — Roberto Bolano Emptiness Copy Share Image
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano Behinds Copy Share Image
“[He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see,… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“Old and alone, thought Pelletier. Just one of thousands of old men on their own. Like the machine célibataire. Like the bachelor… — Roberto Bolaño Computers Copy Share Image
“Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve on the windshields of cars parked along the Boardwalk. But you can't… — Roberto Bolaño Lose yourself Copy Share Image
“I suppose all the movies I've seen will be worth nothing to me when I die. Wrong. They'll be worth something, believe… — Roberto Bolaño Movie Copy Share Image
“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced… — Roberto Bolaño Common humanity Copy Share Image
“The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good… — Roberto Bolaño Failure Copy Share Image
“... among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.” — Roberto Bolaño Movie Copy Share Image
“These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.” — Roberto Bolaño Happiness Copy Share Image
“And yet your shadow isn't following you anymore. At some point your shadow has quietly slipped away. You pretend you don't notice,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats — Roberto Bolano Cat Copy Share Image
“He turned his face into the stream of water and closed his eyes. I'm not as sad as I'd have thought, he… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Children Copy Share Image
“Does his family have money?" I asked. "No, Ulises's family doesn't have money," said Requena. "Actually, the only family he has is… — Roberto Bolaño Family Copy Share Image
“I'm an educated man: the prisons I know are subtle ones. And of course poetry and prison have always been neighbors. And… — Roberto Bolaño Dreams Copy Share Image
