“To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.”

“Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.”

“Longing did not even begin to describe the dark, blissful, almost painful feeling that rose within me. It was as if I was truly melting into him.”

“I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.”

“This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.”

“The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.”