“I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?”
“I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”
“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalive for a little while.”
“I like the idea of a dream being hoarded for future generations.”
“I think she was just travelling. I don't think she had any idea of finding whoever it was she was following.”