"The constant happiness is curiosity."

"The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming."

"Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."

"Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again."

"In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places."

"You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations."

"Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later."

"Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?"

"She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements."