“It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.”

“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”

“- È uno strano dolore.Piano.- Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.”

“Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.”

“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”

“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.”

“Es geschehen Dinge, die wie Fragen sind. Eine Minut vergeht oder auch Jahre, dann antwortet das Leben.”