"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."
"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous."
"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."
"Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace."
"When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word."
"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."