What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

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

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

She was lost in her longing to understand.