Las grietas de Jara Quotes

“I'd rather any kind of business on the ground floor than the utter lack of respect for pedestrians with which buildings are put up in this city today. . . . Nobody cares any more about pedestrian identity.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Las grietas de Jara

“He wants to hold himself to this and not just disappear into the underground, burying himself beneath a city he no long looks at. Tomorrow he'll walk or take a bus – there must be a bus that follows a direct route across the city from his house to his work instead of describing the peculiar horseshoe around which he travels every day beneath the earth – he will make a journey overland, allowing him to look up and take stock of all that each street has to offer. He will roam from one side of town to the other, like a treasure seeker but with no map or coordinates, with no references or clues, leaving chance to do its work, letting an invisible hand carry him through the city, guiding his determination to rediscover something that, until recently, he didn't even realize he had lost.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Las grietas de Jara

“Give them all the contextualization and whatnot you like – they're still chalk and cheese.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Las grietas de Jara

“Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Las grietas de Jara