A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

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

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.