He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman’s back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the ‘message,’ even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.