Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.