He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.