It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.