“Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.”
“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”
“And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.”
“I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.”
“Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. ”
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”