It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.