“These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.”

“I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.”

“Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none!”

“She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.”

“It occurred to me, as it sometimes does, that this day is over and will never be lived again, that we are only the sum of days, and when those are spent, we will not come back to this place, to this time, to these people and these colors, and I wonder whether to be sad about this or to be happy, to trust that these moments were meant for some kind of enjoyment, as a kind of blessing. And if feels, tonight, as if there is much to think about, there is much we have been given and much we have left behind. The smell of freedom is as brisk as the air through the windows. And there is a feeling that time itself has been curtained by darkness.”

“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.”