Morality, too, is a question of time.

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

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

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

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.