Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.