“And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

We’ll grow old waiting.

And it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

Never fight with a pig. You will get dirty, and the pig will love it.”

Light can always be found in love.

I have never held onto anything as tight as I have you.

I guess what I’ve always wanted was someone who loves me enough to match my effort.

Whenever you feel lonely start enjoying the company of the most wonderful person on this earth. YOU !

How beautiful you bloom when you nurture your roots.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)