“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”
“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”
“When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.”
“Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.”
“The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.
Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350”
“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today. Today they were driving along an endless two-lane highway through the forested hills of Connecticut.”
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