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

there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.

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

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

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

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