If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

What I need most of all is certainty.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.