"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. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."
"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."
"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."
"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."
"Few things are more deceptive than memories."