“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!” 

Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.” 

“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.” 

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” 

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.” 

“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.” 

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.” 

“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.” 

“…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.” 

“As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?” 

“write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.” 

“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?” 

“...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.” 

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.” 

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.” 

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.” 

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. 

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

“I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way.” 

“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.” 

“The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.” 

“that in itself age doesn’t make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.” 

“write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.” 

“His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...”