Fatality makes us invisible.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

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.

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.