“Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...”

“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.”

“Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.”

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

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”