Agosto Quotes

“Odio que estas cosas sean así, tan escabrosas, los ex novios. Lo raro es, de un día para el otro, ya no saber nada de una persona con la que compartías todo y a la que conocías intimamente, compartir todo, de cada día, lo que le pasaba cada día y después, de repente, de un momento a otro, ya nunca más nada y ni siquiera tener derecho a llamarlo o sí, o llamarlo igual, pero todo se vuelve incómodo, hasta lo más básico se vuelve incómodo. Dejar de tener derecho al otro, perderlo por completo, tan así, como si tal cosa. Odio eso, esa muerte artificial, ese ensayo de una muerte: hacerte a la idea de que esa persona desaparece, desapareció, se fue de tu vida y ya no tenés derecho a saber más nada de él. De ella. De la persona. Es absurdo, violento. Si sigue viviendo y anda cerca, o no, querés saber como está, en qué anda, no sé, algo. ¿O no? ¿No sería eso lo lógico? Voy a ver, a lo mejor paso por su casa hoy a la tarde, por la casa de los viejos, a ver qué onda, a ver si toco el timbre, a ver si me entero de algo.”
― Romina Paula, August

“You come to me, you appear to me in the night, the fact that you're not here appears to me, that I can't tell you this even though I pretend like I can, not being able to ever tell you is still something I can't understand. That you could have taken so long to decompose, too, that, too, I can't believe there's still so much left of you, down there, buried, hair and things like that, skin. I don't want to take anything, I never wanted to, and I would give (I don't know what, not everything because you wouldn't be there, but I'd give a lot) so much to be able to tell you, for real, to see you, to sing a song with you, shout it out hugging each other, have you over to my apartment, for you to get to know my house and my boyfriend, the one I have now, and have him get to know you and have you tell me which one's better, which one you like better, if it's Juli, if it's him, even though obviously you would like Manuel better, and in reality you wouldn't care about either of them, because the two of us is enough, there's nothing else, we never needed anything else, although we did.”
― Romina Paula, Agosto

“People work, not me. I look out the window, look out the window, out the window. Outside it's winter, and it's sunny. The doors don't shut properly, they don't shut, they're old. A phone rings through the wall. How come it takes such daunting effort to do what one likes? It's daunting, daunting to begin. I find it daunting to get started, and that seems not to be a fixable thing. The road to success, the road to success. Who knows? I get tired of myself. As pleasant as I find it here, as pleasant as a I find it. Did anyone pick up? In any case, the phone stopped ringing. What works better in fiction? Past or present tense? Weekends make me cranky, I don't like them, that imperative to have a good time, do things, do something special, the notion of free time. I prefer to seek out those things while other people work. People relaxing tend to look ridiculous, like out of place, grotesque. I'm unmotivated, a little, I realize, bored, overly calm, almost comfortable. I don't like where I live anymore, I'm fed up, I'm fed up with where I live. I want, somehow, to live differently. I'd take care of it, I'd take care of that baby if he gave it to me, if he wanted to give it to me, if he wanted.”
― Romina Paula, Agosto

“I had to live my life, and to do that I needed to go to Buenos Aires. I had to live my life, and to do that I needed to go to Buenos Aires.”
― Romina Paula, Agosto

“Poor thing. I note I already feel affection for her, and I have the weirdest urge, on the one hand, to go and sit with her and tell her stories or read to her while she's on bed rest, while on the other hand I want to smother her with a pillow or give her a bunch of tranquilizers or sleeping pills so she gives me back the world, so it gets given back to me, the world and everything that has to do with it.”
― Romina Paula, August