“-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.”

“I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.”

“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”

“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,”

“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. ”

“His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.”

“There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. ”