“All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.”

“Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.”

“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born”

“Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons.”

“That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.”

“It was all about eyes, the truth.”

“She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.”