Cauterio Quotes

“En su lugar, me voy a vivir a Madrid. Que es algo bastante parecido a la muerte.”
― Lucía Lijtmaer, Cauterio

“That’s when I understood I was alone. You weren’t there with me, dear Lord. All I had left was to run and run to my house and prepare a carriage and leave that very night, with only the clothes on my back, because you don’t exist. Because we’d only been talking to ourselves, and in fact no one will save us. First an animal freezes and then it flees.”
― Lucía Lijtmaer, Cautery

“The adults went off to the cinema and meanwhile the other children tied me to a chair and pretended to torture me with a knitting needle. I never told my parents anything, but I’ll always remember the perspiration and prodding and, more than anything, that unfamiliar sensation in my stomach, a wave of nausea that rippled out to all my limbs, oozing like mud, as it dawned on me that someone much less intelligent could destroy me if they wanted to. The exterior world was an inhospitable place with absurd rules, teeming with savages. So I took refuge in myself and didn’t trust a soul.”
― Lucía Lijtmaer, Cautery

“El animal primero se queda quieto y luego huye.”
― Lucía Lijtmaer, Cauterio