“Philosophy has forgotten about children”

“I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.”

“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

“I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

“...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.”

“...So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”