“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”

“Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.”

“Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.”

“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”

“Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hsitation l'altre, la moindre lourder le dpare, la moindre sottise l'abtit.”

“Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard pos de temps en temps sur des tres devenus intrieurs,mais qui ne dpendent pas de la mmoire pour continuer d'exister.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”

“I want to be the victim of his errors.”

“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the originalone emotion that time could never fade, and t...”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, bu...”

“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution ...”