The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.