“Some wrong eternity that wouldn’t budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.”

“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.”

“The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.”

“Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made for me, that would shatter the foundations of my very existence. I would see that I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive. For a long time I wouldn’t be ready to accept that my worldview could be wrong, but I do not look back with shame at my ignorance.”

“As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”

“Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.”

“The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.”