“Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness.”

“They did not speak of it the first night, when they spoke of everything until dawn, nor would they ever speak of it. But in the long run, neither of them had made a mistake.”

“The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love. But they were not love, and these doubts increased her confusion, because she was also not convinced that love was really what she most needed to live.”

“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”

“HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions a arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dung hill of war, the more the was resembled Amarant.”

“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

“and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.”