“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“She took refuge in her newborn son. she had felt him leave her body with a sensation of relief at freeing herself from something that did not belong to her and she had been horrified at herself when she confirmed that she did not feel the slightest affection for that calf from her womb the midwife showed her in the raw, smeared with grease and blood and with the umbilical cord rolled around his neck. But in her lonliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but becuase of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”

“She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .”

“She belived that whatever happened to one love affected other loves throught the world .”