12 quotes found
“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
“Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love”
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
“I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.”
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just t...”
“She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What ...”
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that ...”
“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to ...”
