...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs….

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriel….

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian nove….

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough..

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises ..

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains..

Night was running ahead of itself..

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time..

Life was good, one had only to live it..

He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He ….

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones..

I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some plan….

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world..