La edad, por sí sola, no hace a nadie mejor ni más sabio, sólo acentúa lo que cada uno ha sido siempre.
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...
A nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.
Years later my Popo would laugh and tell people that if she hadn’t knocked him out in the first round, he’d still be wandering around in love with the stars.
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...
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...
Vârsta în sine nu îi face pe oameni mai buni sau mai înțelepți, ci doar întărește trăsăturile pe care aceștia le-au avut dintotdeauna.
Una cortina de tinieblas oculta el mundo fantástico donde antes me paseaba libremente.
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...
Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn’t move at all and it is we who pass through it.
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 were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief
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...
The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.
The North Americans' sense of time is very special. They are short on patience. Everything must be quick, including food and sex, which the rest of the world treats ceremoniously. Gringos invented two...
Tengo cincuenta versiones de cómo empezó nuestro amor y todas son ciertas.
Tell Larry I’m not going to the reception, and that he can’t count on me for anything for the rest of my life. Her emphatic tone brooked no argument. Her daughter-in-law closed the door silently and w...
Tampoco entendían que los extranjeros plantaran una bandera en el suelo, marcaran líneas imaginarias, lo declararan de su propiedad y se ofendieran si alguien entraba persiguiendo a un venado. La idea...
También sabía que amaría a aquella niña durante toda su existencia, que ese amanecer perduraría en su recuerdo y que sería lo último que vería en el momento de morir. Ese