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 believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

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

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

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

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

Life was good, one had only to live it.