"I was sure this time too that I'd never hear from her again.  As I had the previous times, I made the firm resolution, at the age of thirty-eight, to fall in love with someone less evasive and complicated, a normal girl with whom I could have a relationship free of unexpected alarms, maybe even marry and have children.  But that didn't happen, because in this life things rarely happen the way we little pissants plan them."

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Bad Girl