“My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes.”
“I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.”
“recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman’s was not mine and”
“they had slept like babies. “Which proves how important it is for a man to return home,”
“El dia quedo teñido de negrura y, a partir de entonces, todos mis dias han sido negros”
“Queria desgarrar la Tierra, destruir el suelo hasta que no quedase nada”
“El Señor nos lo ha dado, el Señor nos lo ha quitado”
“Pero en alguien tan lleno de vida, amor y esperanza, la sombra de la muerte no se detiene por mucho tiempo, al contrario de lo que nos ocurre a quienes carecemos ya de esperanzas y sueños”
“I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”
“Like Dewey, I was lucky. I got to leave on my own terms. Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn’t about material things; it’s about love. And you can never anticipate love.”
“My heart leaps as I remember this morning's note. This boy is my weirdo.
My weirdo is hot.”
“We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.”
“Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.”
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