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1 " But thanks to his sense of smell, he did have a good job. He was employed by the National Intelligence Center to smell murderers and terrorists in letters and other documents. The information revolution was just beginning, and he was very worried: his sense of smell didn't work with screens. "
― Elvira Navarro , La trabajadora
2 " When I think about Fabio these days, I know he's the person who has loved me most, and just as I was, with all that flab he knew how to enjoy; with my butt like a barrel and my kitchen-table legs, and all the edginess of my personality—I suppose the medication softened those edges, though never to the point of eradication—every one of my facial expressions, my freckles, my pale complexion, and the threads of spittle in the corners of my mouth, a for-the-time-being that was more hopeless than anyone else's for-the-time-being, because I had no hope that anything better than what was happening could happen, and I didn't even want what was happening. "
3 " Reconozco el universo en cada rostro, sea hermoso o feo, sublime o grotesco, elevado o vulgar; no me hago ilusiones respecto a lo ridículo, lo cómico o lo anodino: a la distancia justa todo lo es. En cambio, para ti, que "
4 " I kept a record of my periods, and would ask for the next meeting to be on the full moon, in my apartment. Most of them responded with a nervous negative, and the reason wasn't that they considered my proposition peculiar; it was because I blurted it out as if I was playing Russian roulette. And because of my bulging red-faced blondeness, my coming-apart-at-the-seams ways of speaking, and a pair of eyes whose futile, terrifying shipwreck said it all. "
5 " I think madness had hidden there, in that extreme but also tiny ambition, like swallowing a centipede tossed in the salad. "
6 " My intuition was so devastatingly accurate, I had to crush it. "
