Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Night was running ahead of itself.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.