"The Hour of the Star" Quotes
A young woman living in poverty in Rio de Janeiro grapples with her own existence and purpose in this introspective novella.
fiction | 96 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Everything in the world began with a yes.
I lack the strength to be a misanthrope.
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
She was a woman who believed in nothing.
I'd never have thought she was a woman. She had no face: she was a woman without a face.
The silence of the woman who says yes is louder than all the noes put together.
I want nothing, I don't want anything, I don't want to be anything.
Why should I live? I'm not hungry, I'm not in pain, I'm not even in love.
I’m a virgin and I’m in love. I don’t want anything else.
She was a virgin and she was a good girl. She was afraid of men.
