“Shewas afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness representeda loss rather than a gain.”

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been.”

“I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.”

“all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.”

“Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.”

“I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.”