Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

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

She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.