4 Quotes by Elvira Navarro

My intuition was so devastatingly accurate, I had to crush it.

I think madness had hidden there, in that extreme but also tiny ambition, like swallowing a centipede tossed in the salad.

I kept a record of my periods, and would ask for the next meeting to be on the full moon, in my apartment. Most of them responded with a nervous negative, and the reason wasn't that they considered my proposition peculiar; it was because I blurted it out as if I was playing Russian roulette. And because of my bulging red-faced blondeness, my coming-apart-at-the-seams ways of speaking, and a pair of eyes whose futile, terrifying shipwreck said it all.

But thanks to his sense of smell, he did have a good job. He was employed by the National Intelligence Center to smell murderers and terrorists in letters and other documents. The information revolution was just beginning, and he was very worried: his sense of smell didn't work with screens.