Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

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

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.