Way Far Away Quotes

“The night before, when he’d arrived in the town, what he’d walked across like soft grass—sometimes hard scrub, sometimes crackling thorns—had been mice. No wonder the soles of his shoes crunched; it was the heads of the mice that he stepped on, crushing them without realizing it, the bones of their legs, their stiff tails.”
― Evelio Rosero, Way Far Away

“the hotel landlady told him this was his room: she opened the door and pointed to a cell, a sort of coffin. The stone bed looked like another coffin inside it. And on the wall there was a single, lopsided painting: the face of Jesus Christ, pale and bloodied, with one eye faded by the damp. Exactly like Christ winking at you.”
― Evelio Rosero, Way Far Away