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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memorie...more

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Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

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You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and ...more

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It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give ...more

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between it...more

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But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

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One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring hims...more

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You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.

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Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. ...more