Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

Her mind is a haunted house.

Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.