"You should have wakened me."
"But you were so comfortable, I just slipped out of bed."
"Have you had breakfast, Lucienne?"
"I'm waiting for you."
"I often think of you working here. Your world is something you can touch. When we were little you had a garden of your own ... all these years this has been your life ... this and your friends."
"But has anything come of it?"
"I'd like to marry you."
"Raul, don't talk that way, especially before breakfast. An agnostic must be left to her plants."
"I want to break away.... I want Angelina to live permanently in Guadalajara."
She lifted a watering can and began sprinkling seedlings.