It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

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

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

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

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.