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

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.