I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.