“Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.”

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”

“That’s the very reason why love is eternal,’ concluded João Fulgêncio, ‘because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.”

“Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.”

“The devil has taken possession of everybody in Ilhéus. All they think about is money and bigness. They’re on the road to hell. Things are going to start happening…”

“...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.”

“A cidade da Bahia, negra e religiosa, é quase tão misteriosa como o verde mar”