The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

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

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

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