"She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill h…"

"Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens."

"Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts."

"They were arrant newcomers, driven by the nouveau enthusiasms of a cowboy economy. They had no idea what they had com…"

"Then he heard a voice say: “It was amazing to them to discover they had always been in the garden without understandi…"

"“Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.” The…"

"A stunning writer, who expresses the alienation of the modern everyday with terrible force."

"O cheiro de cravo, a cor de canela, eu vim de longe vim ver Gabriela."

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."