He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

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

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.