"The soul never ages, the soul, ball of light tethered to that nuisance the body." (149)
"[A] life contains a multitude of stories and not a single strand explains precisely the who of who one is." (115)
"She and Soledad rolled homemade cigarettes, because cigarettes are what people need most when they are afraid." (134) What is America afraid of, we with our smokes and swagger?
"[Soledad] understood Eleuterio because she was as mute as he was, perhaps more so because she had no piano." (151)
"Wasn't a kiss the tug of a string, a ribbon, a dance, a thread looped and interlocked that began with the lips...?" (153)
"In that kiss, they swallowed one another, swallowed the room, the sky, darkness, fear, and it was beautiful to feel so much a part of everything and bigger than everything." (154)
God, these are amazing. I freaking love this book. And you :)
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