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

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.