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“los pasteles del entierro sirvieron como fiambres para las mesas de la boda.”

“I couldn’t have done anything, because he didn’t threaten you until now.”

“Hasta que temí perderlo, jamás me embelesó el leer. A uno no le embelesa el respirar.”

“El chico es salvaje, rencoroso, lo es ahora y lo fue siempre, ¿y sabe por qué? Porque no ha pasado un día, un solo día de su vida, sin recibir golpes. Ha tenido unos miserables dieciocho años. Merece que le dediquemos un rato.”

“It was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse—which is supposed to be bad luck if you’re born female—but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don’t like their women strong.”

“I am nothing like you, and yet I feel more myself with you.”

“Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss: /
The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief”

“Si en el mundo se hace algo bien, las mujeres son las encargadas de lograrlo.”

“Sí, podía verse a sí misma como una mosca, pero los demás eran libélulas, mariposas, insectos preciosos que bailaban, aleteaban y sobrevolaban, mientras que ella solo luchaba por salir del plato.”

“En verdad que el hombre no soy yo, que el hombre es ella”

“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

“Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.”

“When you got to know her (like I had) you seen that she was delicate as a butterfly, and like a butterfly would flutter away if pursued. The only way to catch her was to sit stock still so that she might venture closer. No doubt about it, I’d have to keep myself in check and be careful not to frighten her away. No fool me! This time I would be more prudent.”

“¿Por qué no me dirá sencillamente que me quiere? ¿Por qué pierde un tiempo precioso, que tal vez nunca volverá? Que me diga: ‘te quiero’. Que me diga con palabras: ‘te quiero’. Que me tome la mano, que incline la cabeza y pronuncie: ‘te quiero’. Que se ruborice y baje la vista delante de mí, y entonces se lo confesaré todo.”

“I reckoned God had lent me an ear, but maybe that ear wasn’t white, maybe the world had a colored God too [...]”

ESTRAGON: You see, you feel worse when I’m with you. I feel better alone too.
VLADIMIR: (vexed). Then why do you always come crawling back?

“When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck.”

“All the attention paid to the development of reason and of mind and of imaginative sympathy. And of skepticism, of well-informed skepticism. Of thinking for oneself. And then to absorb the first rumor? All the education and nothing helps.”

“Once you’re in its grip, it’s as though it will have to kill you for you to be free of it.”

“My hibernation was self-preservational. I thought that it was going to save my life.”

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

“En la pobreza conserva uno todavía la nobleza congénita de sus sentimientos; en la mendicidad jamás. En la mendicidad lo barren a escobazos para humillarlo lo más posible.”