Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Music is important for one's health.