“Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.”

“Most couples love to tell each other their stories and assume their meeting had something exceptional about it; countless pairings formed under the most banal conditions are, all the same, spiced up with details that produce a minor thrill.”

“But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.”

“We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.”

“Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.”

“Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.”

“Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.”