“Sorrow floats.”

“Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.”

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”

“Aber das ist es nun mal, was wir tun: wir träumen weiter gegen den Strom und unsere Träume entschlüpfen uns fast so lebendig, wie wir sie heraufbeschwören können.”

“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.”

“You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.”

“By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.”