As I lay dying

" 'Fred's studies are no very deep', said Rosamond, rising with her mamma; 'he es only reading a novel.' " - George Eliot "Middlemarch"

"Se separaron con ese malestar, ese apuro. No habían tenido nada que decirse. Algunos lo llaman el vacío sideral del después." - La delicadeza, David Foenkinos

"Si la nieve es el silencio que cae del cielo, tal vez la lluvia sean frases precipitándose interminables." - Han Kang, 'La clase de griego'

"It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That´s how the world is going to end."

"Jewel", I say, "do you know that Addie Bundren is going to die? Addie Bundren is going to die?"

"Pa stands beside the bed. From behind his leg Vardaman peers, with his round head and his eyes round and his mouth beginning to open. She looks at pa; all her failing life appears to drain into her eyes, urgent, irremediable. "It´s Jewel she wants", Dewey Dell says."

VARDAMAN "My mother is a fish."

"Motionless, the tall buzzards hang in soaring circles, the clouds giving them an illusion of retrograde."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at."

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I have been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others; just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn´t need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

" ... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense."

"En sus conversaciones hay muchos espacios en blanco Son palabras, lanzadas aquí y allá, desordenadamente ¿Por eso se besan las personas? ¿Para romper el silencio?"

"Charlotte está delante de la consulta de Moridis. Llama a la puerta. Le abre el doctor en persona. Ah... Charlotte, dice. Ella no contesta. Lo mira. Y le alarga la maleta. Diciendo es toda mi vida."

"Charlotte admiraba profundamente a Walter Benjamin. Había leído sus libros y le encantaba oír sus crónicas por la radio. Una de sus frases podría haber sido el lema de la obra de Charlotte: La auténtica medida de la vida es el recuerdo."

"Charlotte se pasa semanas pintando, una tras otra, naturalezas muertas. En alemán, naturaleza muerta se dice Stilleben: vida silenciosa. La vida silenciosa, esa expresión que le encaja tan bien a Charlotte."

"There are no innocents. There are, however, differente degrees of responsibility."

"He shook his head (Armansky). He could not accept that she was an insane mass murderer. Salander never did anything against her will or without thinking through the consequences. Peculiar -yes. Insane -no."