When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.