“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.”

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”

“As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.”

“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.”

“This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.”

“I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.”

“They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. ”