“There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Is that the true, the supreme terror, to discover that I am the wizened youth whose cries no one can hear?” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and… — Roberto Bolaño Heavy heart Copy Share Image
“Still, American television is full of smiles and more and more perfect-looking teeth. Do these people want us to trust them? No.… — Roberto Bolaño Good people Copy Share Image
“The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were… — Roberto Bolaño Autumn Copy Share Image
“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.” — Roberto Bolaño Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time?… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“(since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some… — Roberto Bolaño Dark Copy Share Image
“I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“And then Lihn got out of the swimming pool and we went down to the ground floor, and we made our way… — Roberto Bolaño Another time Copy Share Image
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like… — Roberto Bolano Beach Copy Share Image
“And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove around… — Roberto Bolaño Drowing Copy Share Image
“The Russians opened his mouth and with a pair of pliers the Germans used for other purposes they seized his tongue and… — Roberto Bolaño Wild beast Copy Share Image
“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They… — Roberto Bolaño Freedom Copy Share Image
“He rode well. I'm a good horsewoman, but he was good as I was or maybe better, I don't know. At the… — Roberto Bolaño Left alone Copy Share Image
“I get the idea perfectly, Mickey," said Archimboldi, thinking all the while that this man was not only irritating but ridiculous, with… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.” — Roberto Bolaño Courage Copy Share Image
“Then the sluice gates opened and Lotte said it had been a long time since she saw her brother, that her son… — Roberto Bolaño Long time Copy Share Image
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of… — Roberto Bolaño Power of words Copy Share Image
“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion… — Roberto Bolaño Fame Copy Share Image
