Severina Quotes

“Ahmed had spoken of an illness. But I felt that there must have been another explanation, which I associated with an uncompromising approach to life: absolute freedom, a radical realization of the ideal that I too had adopted one fine day-the ideal of living by and for books.”
― Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina

“Schnitzler, me dije a mí mismo, tenía razón: «Una mujer te puede dejar por falta de amor, o por exceso de amor, por esto o por aquello, por todo o por nada».”
― Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina

“y con sólo algunas hebras como vestigio de la noche.”
― Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina

“creía o decía creer que detrás de los libros, los objetos que llamamos libros, había un espíritu de clase.”
― Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina

“I lay down beside her and there we stayed for a long time, kissing and caressing each other as we had never done before. It was as if both of us knew at each moment exactly the kind of caress that the other needed or desired.”
― Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina

“There are wars between different kinds or genres of books, he said. And, as in real wars, the best don't always win; but for us, in the end, there are no losers, although they all fade away.”
― Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina