Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.