“I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.”

“Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.”

“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”

“Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87”