“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.”
“I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.”
“The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...”
“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”
“But how could you believe me? After all the thousands of times I told you I loved you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?”
“Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.”