How I Became a Nun Quotes

“Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“I was almost unimaginably vague, not because I was stupid, but because nothing really mattered to me. This is an enormous paradox, because everything mattered to me, far too much; I made a mountain out of every molehill, and that was my main problem... I might have seemed indifferent, but nothing could have been further from the truth and I knew it.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“Yo reservaba mi interioridad, mientras él ponía la suya a la vista. Ocultar algo es tener algo que ocultar. Yo no lo tenía, pero ocultaba, asomaba al mundo como quien viene de enterrar un tesoro.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun