"Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment."

"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero."

"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts."

"She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead."

"Como no esperó nada lo tuvo casi todo."

"No importa; alguna vez, Dios sabe dónde, nos veremos las caras destapadas."

"One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else."

"Sólo la virtud tiene argumentos poderosos contra el pesimismo."

"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."

"Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind."

"A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept."

"Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can't let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don't bear you any grudge, that I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to lose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day and that I still love you, now more than ever, even if you don't want me to."

"Coincidences are the scars of fate."

"There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds."

"There are worse prisons than words."

"Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return."

"The Golden Age of Spain (mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries) saw a certain reaction against the generally antifemale attitude characteristic of the Middle Ages. Both Cervantes (1547-1616) and Lope de Vega (1562-1635) often depicted women not as weak, wicked, and lecherous, but as strong, heroic, and virtuous; and both admired their contemporary St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)..."

"Pero la vida es corta: viviendo, todo falta; muriendo, todo sobra."

"Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care, Thou didst seek after me, — that Thou didst wait, Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate, And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?"

"A mis soledades voy, de mis soledades vengo, porque para andar conmigo me bastan mis pensamientos."

"Huir el rostro al claro desengaño, beber veneno por licor süave, olvidar el provecho, amar el daño; creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe, dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño; esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe."

"Armonía es puro amor, porque el amor es concierto."

"Dijeron que antiguamente se fue la verdad al cielo; tal la pusieron los hombres, que desde entonces no ha vuelto. En dos edades vivimos los propios y los ajenos: la de plata los estraños, y la de cobre los nuestros."

"Como las paga el vulgo, es justo hablarle en necio para darle gusto."

"De poetas no digo: buen siglo es éste. Muchos están en ciernes para el año que viene; pero ninguno hay tan malo como Cervantes ni tan necio que alabe a don Quijote."

"Que quando vna puerta se cierra otra suele abrir la fortuna."

"Las riquezas no hazen rico: mas ocupado."

"No sabes que el primer escalon de locura es creerse ser sciente?"

"Ninguno es tan viejo que no pueda viuir vn ano: ni tan mozo que oy no pudiesse morir."

"Que los bienes, si no son comunicados, no son bienes."

"It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous."

"Mejor es el vso de las riquezas que la possesion dellas."

"Que quando el alto dios da la llaga: tras ella embia el remedio."

"The proof of the pudding is the eating."

"I say patience, and shuffle the cards."

"From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing."

"Comparisons are odious."

"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

"Absence, that common cure of love."

"You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile."

"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie."

"There is no love lost, sir."

"The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me."

"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency."

"Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

"Within a stone's throw of it."

"Bell, book, and candle."

"The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment."