“Life: Let's take another look at this whole thing.”
“But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.”
“Studying life, eh! Let him take care, studying human life is looking at the stars. If you look too close, there is a dazzle.”
“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”
“It was another of the things he had left behind, another obvious step in a boy's life that he had decided not to take, so as to stay as far as possible from the machinery of life.”
“It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.”