“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

“You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?”

“I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.”

“suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we want to be loved.”

“So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.”

“One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.”

“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”