A Dream Come True Quotes

“I cupped my hand around the warmth of the pipe and slipped into a slow dream, into a lubricated, airless world that I was condemned to move through with enormous effort and no desires, slackjawed, toward the exit where the indifferent light of the morning was slumbering, unreachable.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

“You're not going out in this rain. You can stay here forever, for all the time you want."
He leaned back in his chair and mocked me without looking at me.
"In this Rain. Forever. All the time," he said as he walked up to me and touched my arm.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

“There was no doubt, however, that I felt different, that I was greedily breathing the air, that I had the urge to walk and to smile, that indifference - as well as cruelty - appeared to me as possible forms of virtue.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

“I remembered the sterility of having thought of the girl, minutes before, as the possible beginning of a sentence that would echo in a different sphere.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

“Risso feared above all that he would be incapable of tolerating an unknown feeling that was neither hatred nor pain, that would die with him unnamed, that was linked to injustice and doom, to the first fear of the first man on earth, to nihilism and the beginning of faith.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti