Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

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.