Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

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.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this