I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.