Children's lies are signs of great talent.

Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.