“And that was the end of the beginning of that”

“Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.”

“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without”

“Every true story ends in death.”

“Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.”

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

“The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.”