Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.