“It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.” — Roberto Bolaño Love Copy Share Image
“I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.” — Roberto Bolaño Death Copy Share Image
“You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.” — Roberto Bolaño Fear Copy Share Image
“As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary.” — Roberto Bolaño Cocks Copy Share Image
“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the… — Roberto Bolaño Rocks Fallen 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 Terror Copy Share Image
“Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.” — Roberto Bolaño History Copy Share Image
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your… — Roberto Bolano Body Copy Share Image
“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one… — Roberto Bolaño History 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
“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it… — Roberto Bolaño Naivete Copy Share Image
“…untill he felt Ingeborg slip two fingers into her vagina and then moisten the entrance to her ass with the same fingers… — Roberto Bolaño Gaze Copy Share Image
“a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn’t cling to the edge of… — Roberto Bolaño Beauty 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
“they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn’t the word, an environment whose language they refused to… — Roberto Bolaño Hostile Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“They talk but their words don't register on the soundtrack. Anyway, they must be saying things like how was your day, I'm… — Roberto Bolaño Saying Copy Share Image
“Ivanov’s breath smelled of vodka and sewers, sour and heavy, like something rotting, reminiscent of empty houses near swamps, nightfall at four… — Roberto Bolaño Horror film 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 an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like… — Roberto Bolaño End result Copy Share Image
“Did Jesus Christ, he asked, suspect that someday his church would spread to the farthest corners of Earth? Did Jesus Christ, he… — Roberto Bolaño Globalization Copy Share Image
“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates… — Roberto Bolaño Fourth Dimension Copy Share Image
“Rosa was seventeen and she was Spanish. Amalfitano was fifty and Chilean. Rosa had had a passport since she was ten. On… — Roberto Bolaño Another time Copy Share Image
“When Espinoza was left alone (his flight was an hour later), his thoughts turned to Liz Norton and his real chances of… — Roberto Bolaño Imagined 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
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Asking Copy Share Image
“That night I didn't sleep a wink, said Norton in her letter, and it occurred to me to call Morini. It was… — Roberto Bolaño Norton Letter Copy Share Image
“Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books.” — Roberto Bolaño Worthwhile Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Blood Copy Share Image
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. — Roberto Bolano Done Copy Share Image
“God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science.” — Roberto Bolaño Art Copy Share Image
