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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memorie...more

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Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't ...more

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Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

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The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet ...more

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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and ...more

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It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give ...more

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring hims...more

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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the ...more

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Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does ...more