“The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.”

“If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.”

“It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.”

“She could slip out of her shoes and leave them right here, stuck in the muck, and then get rid of her dress and everything else: her mind, her life, her pain. The abandon of having nothing to lose, the freedom of being divested of all earthly burdens, ready for the Messiah, or death. Everything is attracted by its end.”

“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

“She was beautiful; my breath was taken; we were still lonely; she said yes.”

“What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life?The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing.”