“Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin." Simone Schwarz-Bart”

“...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

“The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

“It is night at the front, a shadow, a shot. The Jew who has just firedhears a moan..."And then, mother, the hair stands up on his head, for only a few feet from him in the darkness the enemy voice is reciting in Hebrew the prayer of the dying. Ai, God, the soldier has cut down a Jewish brother! Ai, misery! He drops his rifle and runs into no man's land, insane with shame and grief. Insane, you understand? The enemy fires at him, his comrades shout at him to come back. But he refuses; he stays in no man's land and dies. Ai, misery, ai...!”

“It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.”

“Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.”