Quote by María Luisa Bombal: “Love is a hunger that cannot be satisfied by the one you love.”

The longing that love creates is, in some strange way, larger than any single person can fill. Even being with the person you love doesn't extinguish the wanting — something about deep love always reaches beyond what can actually be given or received.

Bombal published The Final Mist in 1935 in Buenos Aires, where she had fled after shooting her former lover in Santiago. Chile and Argentina were both under conservative governments, and women's literary voices exploring desire and interiority were still considered scandalous and transgressive.

Chilean novelist and short story writer whose surrealist fiction explored the inner lives and desires of women trapped in suffocating social roles. Her 1935 novella La última niebla is considered a landmark of Latin American modernist fiction and a precursor to magical realism.