My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

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.

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.