“He wanted his daughter's happiness more than anything but he saw that she was not destined primarily for happiness. She was too complicated for happiness.”

“A soldier's body is a work of art that contains his country's history.”

“There is no difference between being rescued and being captured.”

“The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.”

“…it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…”