You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.

There is always the other side, always.