“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”

“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”

“Thats what friends are for, Sheba”

“Dont we have to live a little first? And read later?”

“Im not just a face, or a body. Im a Havisham.”

“Why dyou think she did it?I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldnt know.A broken heart, I suggested.Do people suffer so much?For love? Oh, I imagine so.To drown herself?Why ...”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”