“Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for a decent gravestone in the cemetery.”

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”

“Some people spend their whole life trying to be liked by others. Some people spend their whole life hoping to be liked for not trying to be liked by others.”

“Love is a funny thing. It's as if you spend your whole life waiting for it, and then, when it finally happens, everything just sort of falls into place. You don't have to question it or second guess it. It just feels... right.”

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”