“Why is it that voices break hearts?”

“In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important.”

“How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.”

“Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized one another from a mere turn of the head observed from hundreds of yards away on a moonless night in January.”

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”

“It is so dam difficult to be simple.”

“Se as orações dos cães chegassem ao céu, choviam ossos”