" For example, over the years I have thought thousands of times that if you hadn't been born I would have needed less money, or could have disappeared for weeks on end without worrying about anyone. I could have prolonged my youth for several more years. I could have even killed myself. I mean, the first consequence of your birth was that from then on, I could never kill myself. When some friend of mine who doesn't have kids talks to me about his little wounds where, after languidly digging around in them, he's found infinite desperation and anguish, I don't say what I really think, which is this: Why don't you just kill yourself?

I don't know if my life would make sense without you. I don't think my life has any meaning other than to be with you. "

― Alejandro Zambra