I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.