“A free fall from joy to.. Truth.”

“It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.”

“The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.”

“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”

“Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.”

“Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.”

“Even if that is the truth,” Derkein said, “what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?”