"I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world."
"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
"I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him."
"Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it."