“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...”

“It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.”

“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. Theyre merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.”

“He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:but...”

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add ple...”

“Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”