Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

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.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.