“Every secret we confide in anotherperson can be a burden to them”

“People have faces. […] Spirits don’t have faces. And yet we recognise them. We know who is who. Spirits don’t have eyes or mouths or ears either. And yet they can see and speak and hear. […] The spirits are all around us. […] They’re right here, but we can’t see them.”

“Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.”

“We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.”

“A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.”

“Do you know what the wind tastes like? […] Mysterious spices […] that tell us about people and events far away. That we can’t see. But that we can sense if we draw the wind deep into our mouths and then eat it.”

“It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.”