“Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either”
“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...”
“Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you (unless you're at a funeral), cry and you cry alone.”
“Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable.”
“No one in this desert, neither he nor his guest, mattered. And yet, outside this desert neither of them, Daru knew, could have really lived.”