The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

Shame has poor memory.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.