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

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

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