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

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.