“Come! into the open, friend! admittedly only a little is gleaming todaydown and narrowly the heaven is enclosing us.Neither the mountains have yet risen of the forestthe peak as wished and empty the air is resting of singingIt’s dull today, the ways and lanes are slumbering and nearly it mayseem to me to be as in the leaden time. Nevertheless the wish succeeds, true believers don’t have doubts about Onehour and to the pleasure the day must furthermore be dedicated.”

“...return trips, to this day...are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber,”

“Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.”

“Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.”

“The wishes might not come true the way you think they will, not everything will be perfect, but love will come because it always does, because why else would it exist and it will make everything hurt a little less. You just have to believe in yourself.”

“The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . .”