Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.