"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"
"There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself."
"She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die."That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."
"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."
"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."