A cada uno le llega el momento de alcanzar su nivel de incompetencia.
It makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.
And what are we going to tell people?” exclaimed Doris. “That I’m old and crazy. That wouldn’t be far off the mark,” Alma replied.
The Belascos’ garden remained deaf to the defamatory propaganda campaign against the Japanese, who were accused of unfair competition against American farmers and fishermen, threatening white women’s virtue with their insatiable lust, and corrupting American society by their Oriental, anti-Christian ways.
At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.
I haven’t forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy.
For Isaac’s protection he had a blue Turkish evil eye and a painted tin hand of Fatima hanging from the bedpost; a candle was always lit on his chest of drawers, next to Hebrew and Christian Bibles and a jar of holy water that one of the domestic staff had brought from the Shrine of Saint Jude.
We get along really well, it seems to me, although he still grunts at me every once in a while. I don’t pay any attention. I remember that when I met him, he struck me as surly, but in these months of living together I’ve discovered he’s one of those guys who’s ashamed of his own kind heart. He makes no effort to be nice and gets frightened when someone grows fond of him; that’s why he’s a little scared of me.
Dicen que nunca se termina un libro, que simplemente el autor se da por vencido.
Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No.
Gervasio Lonquimay.
Are you afraid?” asked Alma. “No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.
C’erano giorni in cui rimaneva imbrigliato negli incubi senza mai svegliarsi del tutto.
Con cada amor volvemos a nacer y con cada amor que termina se nos abre una herida. Estoy llena de orgullosas cicatrices.
Dios no nos manda sufrimientos sin la fortaleza para soportarlos.
She had loved her husband with the fierce loyalty of someone who does not question her destiny as a wife, but becoming a widow was a liberation for her.
Old age is the best moment to be and do whatever you enjoy. Soon no one will be able to bear me.
Van ons hangt het af of liefde eeuwig is.
The nightmares of the past were like dust that had settled along the way: the slightest gust sent them billowing up once more.