Writing is a lot like sewing: You bring pieces together and make a quilt. - Rosario Ferré

He created the house on the lagoon as one would create a poem or a statue, breathing life into its every stone. (chapter 6, p49)

These times made me search for guidance within myself, for a reason to live. This is where my literature comes from.

My grandmother always insisted that when people fall in love they should look closely at what the family of the betrothed is like, because one never marries the bridegroom alone but also his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and the whole damned tangle of the ancestral line. I refused to believe her even after what happened when Quintín and I were still engaged. (beginning of QUINTÍN AND ISABEL'S PLEDGE)