“Zona spat a stream of Spanish that overwhelmed translation, a long and liquid curse.”
“The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.”
“An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.”
“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”
“Eyes like streams of melting snow,Cold with the things she does not know,Heaven above and Hell benieth,Liquid flames to hold her grief, Death,Death, Death with no release”
“She watched the stream of hot black liquid fall, and felt suddenly, painfully alive to what she had risked in overthrowing her life for the man walking away into the night with another woman.”