There had never been a death so foretold.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

He who awaits much can expect little.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.