Elena

“She entered without knocking, while he was reading in bed, filling his burrow with the flutter of her long hair and her undulating arms. She touched his books without the slightest reverence, and even dared to take them from their sacred shelves; she blew the dust off their covers without the least respect and tossed them onto the bed, chatting all the while as he trembled with desire and surprise, unable to extract from his whole encyclopedic vocabulary a single word to hold her there, until she finally took leave of him with a kiss on the cheek that continued to burn: a single, terrible kiss on which he built a labyrinth of dreams where the two of them were a prince and princess hopelessly in love.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn’t worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. If anyone had told me then that I would live to be more than ninety, I would have put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“I had a scholarship, just as Thomas has at his school; we are tolerably bright.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Lo peor es tenerle miedo al miedo.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits