we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.