“There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.”

“I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.”

“I’ll always deny that I kissed her.I was just whispering into her mouth.”

“Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires.There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime.It's where we could live.I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.--Mon Semblable”

“May you turnstone, my daughter,into silk. May you make men better than they are.”

“Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.”

“Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.”