Valencia Quotes

“No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.”

“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.”

“A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.”

“I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.”

“I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.”

“She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.”

“Don't let anger consume you if you're longing for true love.”

“I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me. There were millions of ways that the world could kill me--starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia--that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists. Terrorists kill a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions. Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.”

“Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.”