I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

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

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.