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.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.