Julio Cortazar Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 26, 1914 - February 12, 1984
Birthday: August 26
Death: February 12
What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.
topic: Life, Rain, Thinking, Marrying, Marrying Her, Lightning Bolts, Hopscotch
