“there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.”

“When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?”

“Why did you do that, Pedro? It will look ridiculous, you agreeing to marry Rosaura. What happened to the eternal love you swore to Tita? Aren't you going to keep that vow?''Of course I'll keep it. When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love, and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?''So you intend to marry without love?''No, Papa. I am going to marry with a great love for Tita that will never die.”

“You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.”

“- O vento também é eterno. Nunca acaba. Quando o vento entra no nosso corpo, nascemos, e, quando sai, é porque morremos, por isso temos de ser amigos do vento.- E...este...- Já nem sabes o que perguntar. É melhor guardares silêncio, não gastes a tua saliva. A saiva é água sagrada que o coração cria. A saliva não deve gastar-se em palavras inúteis porque então estaremos a desperdiçar a água dos deuses e olha, vou dizer-te uma cois que não deves esquecer: se as palavras não servirem para humedecer os outros a lembrança e conseguir que aí floresça a memória de deus, não servem para nada.”

“«A memória», disse-lhe, «é para ver a partir de dentro. É dar forma e cor às palavras. Sem imagens não há memória.»”

“[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”