The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

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