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If there is one thing Lola has learned in this modern world of ours, it’s that the truth doesn’t matter. The only important thing is the version of reality that coincides with your desires and aspirations.
Then she falls silent. “Of course. Boketto. It happens to me all the time.” “No, it doesn’t.” “How am I supposed to know that?” Antonia seems suddenly to understand how conversations work. That they’re based on using comprehensible terms. “It’s Japanese. It means ‘that feeling you have when you’re staring into the distance and you get lost inside yourself for no apparent reason.’”
Backpfeifengesicht. It’s German.” “Meaning?” “A face that urgently needs a slap.”
That the limits of your language are the limits of your world. This is something every avid reader understands intuitively, even if they don’t express it in those terms, and it’s why they can never read enough.
What does somebody who has everything want? They want more, like everyone else.
If you can’t save them, at least you can avenge them.
