But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.

... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.