Life was good, one had only to live it.

- Jorge Amado

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

- Jorge Amado

Night was running ahead of itself.

- Jorge Amado

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…

- Jorge Amado

...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…

- Jorge Amado

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

- Jorge Amado

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

- Jorge Amado

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…

- Jorge Amado

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.

- Jorge Amado