It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
There is always something left to love.
Time was not passing. . . it was turning in a circle.
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.
It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.
Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.