“I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I worked every day until midnight, I felt I was much more in charge of myself than ...”

“And that luck was only fate's cheating, giving an illusion of power. But that illusion lingered, and I became restless. I decided to act, to challenge fate. (...) I gained courage; every afternoon ...”

“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fal...”

“It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.”

“A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.”

“paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...”

“The truth can set us free but can hurt us sometimes...”

“And when I realized you had secrets too, I was glad. I thought we could be honest with each other. That we could finally rid ourselves of all the clutter from our past. Not our possessions, but the...”