“There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”

“Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.”

“One cannot always marry the person one loves...”

“The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”

“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”

“And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.”

“Aber jede noch so kleine Verbesserung meines Zustandes entfernte mich weiter von George, und in Wahrheit war seine Gesellschaft die einzige, nach der mich verlangte. Ich empfand es als Verrat, dass ich lernte ohne ihn zu leben.”