"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."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
"Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it."
"And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
"Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you."