Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.