“Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.”

“Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple town in a simple family. But what I saw then, right after the collapse of the woman, ripped the "simple" out of my understanding of the rules of the world, and changed my life forever.”

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

“I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.”

“So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long awaited by Cosimo and which had now inexplicably arrived, and so lovely that he could not imagine how he had even thought it lovely before. And the thing newest to him was that it was so simple, and the boy at that moment thought it must be like that always.”

“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse.”