La gracia no era morirse, puesto que eso llegaba de todos modos, sino sobrevivir, que era un milagro.
Ingeriste la poción de la muerte que todas las mujeres bebemos tarde o temprano. ¿Has notado que en la pubertad se nos acaba la energía de amazonas que traemos desde la cuna y nos convertimos en seres...
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El dolor es un camino solitario.
El dolor es inevitable en el paso por esta vida, pero dicen que casi siempre es tolerable si no se le opone resistencia y no se agregan miedo y angustia.
Con la idea tallada a cincel en su mente de que ayudar al perseguido es un deber moral ineludible.
At least as old as synthetic penicillin—you
Adormidera, como me aconsejaban las monjas del hospital,
Y una vez en tierra, la chica ya no era su responsabilidad. La idea de desprenderse definitivamente de ella le producía una mezcla de tremendo alivio y de incomprensible ansiedad.
Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well an...
Word by word I have created the person I am and the invented country in which I live.
When she was eight she had fallen in love with Ichimei with all the intensity of childhood passions; with Nathaniel it was the calm love of later years. The two of them fulfilled different roles in he...
Un hombre hace lo que puede, una mujer hace lo que el hombre no puede.
Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic...
Todo es cuestión de seguir avanzando paso a paso hasta el final.
Tijdens de lange reis in het voetspoor van een onmogelijke romance had Eliza iets verworden dat even waardevol was als de liefde: vrijheid
This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality s...
They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.
There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that’s why they get noticed.
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 n...