“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.”

“It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die”

“Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.”

“She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.”

“She remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew where she was. This time too, no one would come. But she no longer expected them to. She smiled at the clear sky. With a little effort, she could get up by herself.”

“She was too smart for his own good.”

“If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.”