“I do not care about power and wealth, father. I want to marry for love.You want to marry for love? The elder Valentino scoffed. Que mierda. Marrying for love is like adding extra picante to your me...”

“Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. Theyre merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.”

“What could you possibly hope to find in a cemetary?" The women said. "The dead tell no secrets and the living seldom come to visit them.”

“Dont fret. We all experience it. We must. For despite our humanity love is the only way we can be like gods. It is in love that we glimpse heaven during our lifetime and have proof that theres some...”

“Rolando pursed his lips and sighed. Just be careful. Why, because her father carries a gun? Isaac said. Arent you the one who always said guns dont shoot people?No, it was you who said that. Roland...”

“Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion...”

“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of yo...”

“Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”