Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.