“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”

“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.”

“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”

“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.”

“Marriage is a mystery.”

“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”

“If you became blind," I said, "if you were used to finding your way around a house and then, suddenly, one day had an accident--was attacked or something--and became blind, only then would you actually notice the furniture. It would always have been there, but you would never have been aware of it, you would just have gone around it. Only when something becomes hard to cope with do you see it. That's how you become aware of time--when it becomes hard to cope with.”