Homage to Barcelona Quotes

“That which interest me above all else,' he wrote,'is the caligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of the grass.”
― Colm Tóibín, Homage to Barcelona

“By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds.

If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for the sound of the delivery man hitting a cylinder with a piece of metal in the street.”
― Colm Tóibín, Homage to Barcelona

“From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.”
― Colm Tóibín, Homage to Barcelona