There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.