Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.