I don’t want to go to Peru.”How do you know? You’ve never been there.”I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.

Our fathers were demons,’ Catarina said. ‘Our mothers were heroes.

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

Nothing can happen to me that hasn’t gone through His hand first. If He wants to deliver me, He will. If He doesn’t, He has a good reason for it.

No concibo mi vida más que como un encadenamiento de muertes sucesivas. Arrastro tras de mí los cadáveres de todas mis ilusiones, de todas mis vocaciones perdidas.

La definición exacta del significado de ser vampiro: vivir entre dos mundos y no pertenecer a ninguno

Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had already been vetted by the Inca emperors to highlight their own heroic roles....

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.