"The only talent you ever showed here was for girls and liquor. So when you left and took your money with you, we assumed you were off on a super-binge of some sort. We've been waiting for you to come back so we could straighten you out." p. 41, Part One, Ch. 1, In Which Mundinho Falcão, an Important Character, Makes His Appearance Looking at Ilhéus through Binoculars

"The snake has come to sun itself."
p. 65, Part One, Ch. 1, Of a Political Boss in the Sun

"A woman's place was in the house, taking care of her children and home. A young woman's occupation was to wait for a husband and, meanwhile, to learn to sew, play the piano, and run the kitchen." p. 68, Part One, Ch. 1, Of a Political Boss in the Sun

"Backward and ignorant, hostile to the new world in which they live, incapable of...