Tomeward Bound

"Sometimes you go looking for kindling and find that green leaves won't burn, that the garden was watered too well."

"Spring had erupted since the previous week; green had taken command of the fields; acacias were in flower—those enchanted trees whose branches from a distance seem to be covered with bees, yellow blossoms that make your head spin with their impossible fragrance as you draw near; hawthorns and mulberries were alive with birds, and the very air vibrated with the humming of insects."

"She tried to relive that moment—the damp red earth and the intense scent of the pine and eucalyptus forests in which a carpet of dry leaves lay steeping after the long hot summer and where the copper sunlight filtered down through the treetops."

"I'd take fear over pity any day."

"Rich women also have to choose their men wisely cuz even the ones you'd never expect can turn out to be the jealous type, the violent type who gets out his spoon on day one and cracracra keeps scraping till he's dug your grave."

"Old age could wreck the human brain, but perhaps insidious thoughts could ruin it in one's youth, chipping away at one's sanity."