“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for acertain group of men, to know that there is always a spot whereone’s heart will feel at peace these are many certainties for a singlehuman life. And yet this is not enough. But at certain momentseverything yearns for that spiritual home”
“It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)”
“Love is the ability to make the invisible visible and the desire always to feel the invisible in one’s midst.”
“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”
“It is a terrible thing to feel sorry for one’s mother or indeed father. And it’s an additionally awful thing to feel this and to know the impotence of the adolescent to do anything at all about it. Worse still, perhaps, is the selfish consolation that it isn’t really one’s job to rear one’s parents.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”