Violeta [English Edition]: A Novel

Her eternal illness is the reason for my good health; in order to avoid following in her footsteps, I’ve lived my life proudly ignoring any and all ailments. That’s how I learned that, in general, things clear up on their own.

The rural women taught me that courage is contagious and that there’s strength in numbers; what you can’t do on your own can be achieved together, the more the better.

That’s how I spent my adolescence, our period of Exile, which I remember as the most diaphanous time of my life.

No one knows what really goes on within a couple’s inner sanctum or why someone might put up with things that others deem inexcusable.

implacable,

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they’ll take it back.

“Exert some independence; you’re not a little girl. You can’t let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world,” she said.

The journey of life has long and tedious stretches, step by step, day by day, without anything exciting happening, but memory is made up of the unexpected events that mark your course.

He said that tools and manual labor were the common language of men and that there were no barriers to communication when two men worked side by side.