The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\