When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

- Carmen Laforet

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death come…

- Carmen Laforet

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

- Carmen Laforet

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

- Carmen Laforet

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

- Carmen Laforet

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

- Carmen Laforet