Ornamento Quotes

“he’s a professional, just like the monkeys. Now it’s only a matter of time.”
― Juan Cárdenas, Ornamental

“This morning I called one of the directors to ask if there’s a henchman available. I’ll send one over now, he said. A few hours later, a guy who looks like a henchman walks into my office, a bad caricature with a pockmarked face, yellow-green eyes, and a military haircut. What can I do for you, Doctor? he says, and his voice, sweetly obedient, complicates his villainous appearance. I need to find out where someone lives. I give him photos and facts. The guy doesn’t ask any questions;”
― Juan Cárdenas, Ornamental

“Some drivers speed through red lights, afraid to idle at the corners. Whereas I take a distinctly guilty pleasure in the compaction of these decidedly ugly things, even find a certain beauty there: in the stillness, the tenuous light against the eroded geometry of the façades, the people who dare to walk around here at this hour, hands in pockets and heads bowed. There’s an extraordinary fixity in all this. Number”
― Juan Cárdenas, Ornamental