“Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica.To be intelligent, one must start young.”

“Y puede, puede así, que las muertes no sean to­das iguales. Puede que hasta después de la muerte, todos sigamos distintos caminos.”

“Es muy posible desear morir, cuando se ama demasiado la vida”

“In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.”

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books.”

“I couldn't will my beloved Berlin streets across the world or make the people I loved appear when I needed them, but by summoning the flavors of Berlin and the foods of my loved ones, my kitchen became my sanctuary, the stove my anchor.Distance means nothing when your kitchen smells like home.”

“Hay frases que no se dicen para ser recordadas, sino por el placer de ver los ojos de quienes las escuchan. Hay afirmaciones que se hacen con la intención de provocar un gesto de asentimiento, negaciones que buscan la aprobación del otro; la complicidad surge de compartir instantes que no pueden evocarse.”