The Hour of the Star Suffering Quotes

Macabéa is so hungry that she resorts to eating paper while fantasizing about beef. Moments like this are weird, because it's hard to believe the narrator talking about how happy Macabéa is when he gives us such specific details of her suffering.

Apparently Macabéa's innocence is so pure that she doesn't even suffer. It's like she makes her own reality—but we can't help feeling that we'd still rather have someone else's reality.

Weird, right? Macabéa claims that she's happy … but she's in so much pain that she has to ask for aspirin all the time. What's super depressing is that she seems to figure that this is just the way life is. You're in pain all the time.