…They’re dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well as immortality.

Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años.

There is no need to tell you that the ‘Prince of Salina’ is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.