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“All she had ever wanted, all she had ever lived for, was the inverse of this perverse imprisonment. To command her own life. To command her own body, to decide to whom it was given and when.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Possession of Alba Díaz

“I could rationalize this decision away. It was easy, too easy. She was a lost soul who sought help and I gave it; thus was my vocation. I could repeat that sentence like a litany, like a prayer, a meditation of pious deceit, but it still would not change the truth. I was giving in to temptation. Every decision I made that kept me close to her, that offered the opportunity to be close enough to touch her hand or smell her hair, was a sin.

I wanted it all the same.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“Destierro is to have your home negated, to be ripped from the place where you belong, to be uprooted from your land.”
― Gabino Iglesias, House of Bone and Rain

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula