“And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.” — Roberto Bolaño Fire Copy Share Image
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them. — Roberto Bolano Attention Copy Share Image
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. — Roberto Bolaño Game Copy Share Image
“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Comedy Copy Share Image
“Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Listens Copy Share Image
“His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.” — Roberto Bolaño Saddened Copy Share Image
You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. — Roberto Bolano Look Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of… — Roberto Bolano And love Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Literature 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 Bored Copy Share Image
“Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.” — Roberto Bolaño Hanged Copy Share Image
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… — Roberto Bolano Construction 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
“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
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology… — Roberto Bolaño Memory Copy Share Image
“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly… — Roberto Bolaño Another time Copy Share Image
“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta… — Roberto Bolaño Children Copy Share Image
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other,… — Roberto Bolano Arms Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to… — Roberto Bolano Aunt Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Coincidence Copy Share Image
“These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he… — Roberto Bolaño Brave 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
“But I’m scared. And I need company. This morning I drove past the Santa Teresa prison and I almost had a panic… — Roberto Bolaño Business Copy Share Image
“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for… — Roberto Bolaño Bibliophile 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
“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 cannot actually see him, but there he is in my mind's eye, crouching or down on all fours, on a hillock,… — Roberto Bolaño Black clouds Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, after they'd done the shopping, they would stop, each with his or her cart, in front of a bookstore that carried… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“For Padilla the shared act of smoking was basically a staging of loneliness: the tough guys, the talkers, the quick to forget… — Roberto Bolaño Broken dreams Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.” — Roberto Bolaño Child Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Losing Copy Share Image
“pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.” — Roberto Bolaño Life Copy Share Image
If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. — Roberto Bolano Expectations Copy Share Image
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight. — Roberto Bolano Dream Copy Share Image
“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.” — Roberto Bolaño Dreams Copy Share Image
“Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.” — Roberto Bolaño Necessary Copy Share Image
