He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. - Gabriel García Márquez

الحكمة تأتينا في الوقت الذي لا تعود به ذات نفع

Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.