“The hunt for love is haughty falconry.”

“He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love.”

“and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.”

“Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the world.”

“Love was always love anytine anyplace but it was more solid the closer it came to death .”

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

“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”