"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."
"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."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
"Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it."
"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."