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“La manera más eficaz de “reescribir” una vida es mezclar con descaro verdades con grandes mentiras”

Book:La maestra de títeres

Source: La maestra de títeres

“Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.”

Book:Little Indiscretions

Source: Little Indiscretions

“Suddenly, stupidly, she started singing: "If Adelita went off with another man.”

Allusion La Adelita

Book:Little Indiscretions

Source: Little Indiscretions

“Así fue como aprendí -se dice ella ahora- que la verdad no existe, la verdad se fabrica. Y precisamente a eso me dedico desde aquel entonces, es tan divertido como útil.”

Book:La maestra de títeres

Source: La maestra de títeres

“He had heard about fortune-tellers' houses: they were always weird. Some, no doubt, were decorated in the Chinese manner, with little colored lamps, and yins and yangs everywhere, even on the bathroom tiles. And Cuban faith healers, all the rage recently, probably had their places done up like Bacardi ads, with bongo drums and seashells everywhere, and statues of Babalú Ayé and Shangó and the Blessed Saint Barbara. But Madame Longstaffe, the famous clairvoyant, was Brazilian. She hailed from the peerless city of Bahia, and her house defied the imagination: the natural reaction to such surroundings was flight”

Fortune Tellers Decór

Book:Little Indiscretions

Source: Little Indiscretions