Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

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