The Antiquarian Quotes

“A psychiatric ward bears the greatest likeness to Hell itself than any other of man’s earthly constructions, with circles and cells for the terminally ill. It’s a cloister duplicated for those who, upon arrival, are already imprisoned in themselves.”
― Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian

“You don’t lose a sister like you lose an ordinary object. If a sister disappears into thin air, that air is all you breathe for the rest of your life.”
― Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian

“You can love a spectacle, but it will never love you back, nor will it even know you’re there.”
― Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian

“schizophrenia and psychosis left traces, hieroglyphics impossible to modify. Their faces were papers teeming with writings, crammed with indefinable references, and any new emotion was lost in the palimpsest of scribbles that the disorder had drawn on them.”
― Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian

“but I spoke to them in a subdued tone, barely audible, because speaking with someone reminded me that I was one of them, and I wasn’t prepared for that.”
― Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian

“What’s most unsettling about a madman is his sane conversation,”
― Gustavo Faverón Patriau, The Antiquarian