La besó en la mejillla lo más cerca posible de la boca, deseando con pasión permanecer a su lado eternamente para preservarla de las sombras. Olía a yerbas y tenía la piel fría. Supo que amarla era su...
Kon Tiki,
If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again
I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have res...
I realized that she had simply fulfilled her mission in this life and that she had escaped another dimension where her spirit, finally free of its material burden, would be more at home
I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only...
His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and the husband fate had dealt her
His house of cards had collapsed, and he lay among the ruins—but he was free. He felt euphoric, weightless, years younger. The only thing he missed was Indiana, but she too belonged to the past; she t...
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the t...
He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.
He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.
Había inventado un amante perfecto y nutría esa quimera con invencible porfía. Su imaginación compensaba los ingratos abrazos con su amante, que la dejaban perdida en el limbo oscuro del deseo insatis...
Gringos invented two terms that are untranslatable into most languages: snack and quickie, to refer to eating standing up and loving on the run . . . that, too, sometimes standing up.
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alte...
Esteban abrió la puerta y necesitó algunos segundos para ver en la oscuridad. El olor a medicamentos y podredumbre le golpeó la cara un olor dulzón de sudor, humedad, encierro y algo que al principio...
Estas largas separaciones son peligrosas, el amor resbala por arenas inciertas.
Estaba harta de contemplar desde abajo los vellos de la nariz del resto de la humanidad.
Ese era el peligro del terrorismo: la astucia de un solo individuo camuflado en la multitud contra la fuerza titánica de la nación más poderosa del mundo.
Es fácil juzgar a otros cuando uno no ha sufrido esa experiencia