“Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so erring, against the inevitable background of sorrow. But that they did not know then; and they wer...”

“Como siempre, la consideracin de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los dems. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo.”

“She was tall and well-made, on an ample scale; her skin looked as if it had the flavour of fresh cream which it resembled, her childlike mouth that of strawberries. Under a mass of raven hair, curl...”

“The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one or two up there, at the zenith. As always, seeing them revived him; they were distant, they were ...”

“They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.”

“A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”