“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

“Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.”

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

“Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.”

“They showed me that it was not necessary to demonstrate facts: it was enough for the author to have written something for it to be true, with no proof other than the power of his talent and the authority of his voice. It was Scheherazade all over again—not in her millenary world, where everything was possible, but in a irreparable world, where everything had already been lost.”

“She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.”

“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made no sense to end it with a decision that seemed more like a civil death.”