...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.