I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginni…

- Luisa Valenzuela

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

- Luisa Valenzuela

In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could…

- Luisa Valenzuela