A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.