I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

En la vida hay tinieblas, mi niña, pero también hay luces. Y tu eres la luz de toda luz.

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.