“But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?”

“Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.”

“The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.”

“I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.”

“Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.”

“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a button. A few hours later and half a world away, some dots of ...”

“i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.”

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I w...”

“Survival in scarcity dictates nastiness with a rival clan, but also dictates goodness towards our own clan whose support is vital to acquire or defend the necessary scarcities.Mans nastiness or goo...”

“Mr. Ellison is that unreasonable man that possesses the ostranenie effect-- he has a keen eye to see the simplest things and make them profound, and make simple minded people see deeply into mundan...”