this homer guy is about to sell a lot of books. happy for him

“Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo” -Horacio Quiroga, Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (Shout-out a @ gustav klimt por la portada)

“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ...” -Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

"Porque a mí también, en el fondo, me parece más interesante lo que sucede en la cabeza del verdugo." -Neige. Sinno, Triste Tigre

"¿La vida es un caos concéntrico? No sé, yo solamente sé que mi vida era un caos nocturno con un solo centro que era Las Vegas y en el centro del centro un vaso con ron y agua o ron y hielo o ron y soda y allí estaba desde las doce." Guillermo Cabrera Infante.Tres tristes tigres

Khabib has a chance of doing the funniest thing.

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” -Walter M. Miller Jr. , A Canticle for Leibowitz

"Finally, I entrust this manuscript to you because I believe you probably know me better than anyone else. I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity." -Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon& Other Stories

“They had not known, in their raucous rush toward the future, that the snakes were lying in wait not only in the holes but in the mowed green grass of the American Dream.” -Robert McCammon, Gone South

“A sword, small friend, is the extension of a man’s right hand…and the end point of his heart. Just the same is Man the good right hand of God-–Man is the sharp executor of the Heart of God. Do you see?” -Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

“As with all dwellings,” she said, “of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.” -Tad Williams, Stone of Farewell

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.” -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Waiting is a big part of a slave's life, waiting and waiting to wait some more. Waiting for demands. Waiting for food. Waiting for the ends of days. Waiting for the just and deserved Christian reward at the end of it all." -Percival Everret, James

“That is why war, however horrible, should not be a fight between animals. That is why a knight is more than simply a strong man on a horse. He is God’s vicar on the battlefield. Swordplay is prayer, lads—serious and sad, yet joyful.” -Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

" His dead gaze shifted to her. “Where Vera resides. Where they all reside, and the sound of their mewling carries to the shore.” “Vera’s in heaven,” your mom said. “You will learn to call it that.” " -Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

"Mientras tanto, en tierra firme, Duari Yemaya Okoto jamas existio." -M. A. Zúniga ('Horchata's edition') 🇵🇸🇲🇽🐈🤖🚀 , Inerme en la ciudad y otras minificciones científicas

“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your own. Of course that was the problem." -Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling.

"In the beginning, there was simply the event and its consequences." -Paul Auster, City of Glass

"Pues en la hora de la muerte las personas se vuelven brillantes estrellas de cine, es el instante de gloria de cada uno y es como cuando en el canto coral se oyen agudos sibilantes." -Clarice Lispector. La hora de la estrella