She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

She was lost in her longing to understand.

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.