Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.