He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.
But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)
Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.