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

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

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.

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

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

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Night was running ahead of itself.

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

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.

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