“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

“And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.”

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

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”

“His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us.”

“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.”