“Every experience has its worth to be lived. (Agosto 2012 en La Paz, Boliva)”

“Write about the experiences that made you feel human. And whatever happens, please do continue to live and write. The people of your own time may not perceive your words, but be cheered by the fact that history has shown that, many times, mankind has learned to love an author, even if their own time thought nothing of them.”

“I shook my head. "it's not about living in a city."It wasn't. Back then, it wasn't just getting away. It was about not coming back. It wasn't just the size and sensibility of this place that made in unbearable, but its pull - the weird magnetism that could sap your ambition, clip your wings, leave you inert and fascinated and sinking ever deeper into the choking quicksand of small-town life.”

“I was learning that all Emilio really has to do to persuade most women is to exist.”

“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

“Hearsay - there's a reason it's not admissible in court.”

“There's no one else. In my experience, men have one primary use." She let her gaze rove over him suggestively, and the atmosphere shifted from tense to provocative. Hidden terrace lighting played over her features, softening them, and that unrevealing dress dangled the promise of what she'd hidden under it.Then she finished the sentiment. "To move furniture.”