2666 Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week.
"Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself.
"Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be. — Roberto Bolano

A conclusion is the place you get to when you're tired of thinking. — Jill Shalvis

I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that. — Mario Balotelli

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats ... — Roberto Bolano

What is wrong with being a devout follower? Is it not acceptable to be sad and alone, if you remain loyal and obedient? — S.E. Lindberg

Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within. — Richard Dyer

It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum.
2666, Bolano — Roberto Bolano

Life is short. HOW we live it makes the most impact of all. The interactions, everyday, that we have with everyone around us--that is life! That is what matters most. — Heidi Tankersley

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us. — Sonia Sanchez

I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying. — Roberto Bolano

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain. — Roberto Bolano

Reading is never a waste of time. — Roberto Bolano

Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it. — Roberto Bolano

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam