“My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldnt know how to fight in.”

“Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?”

“I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice,but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.”

“Even through the smoke,you are still the most beautiful thingin this city and I, well, I am stillthe last thing youd save in a fire.”

“You said: "Wait for the moon with me."I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.”

“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...”

“Let me feel how thy pulses beat.”

“Jesus Christ! A man could only take so much. She yelped as he snatched her up around the waist and sat her on the counter. Sit there and dont move. Dont bat your eyes. Dont lick your lips. Dont get...”

“It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a pot...”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”