Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

He who awaits much can expect little.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...