“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

“She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”

“I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.”

“Your best friends are in trouble and you say 'of course' and forget them instantly.”

“Perhaps it was a case of time overflowing.”

“Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.”

“Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be differen...”