“Its our memories that teach us who we are.”

“Never leave home without your memories.”

“One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.”

“To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and theres excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.”

“Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.”

“The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.”

“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”

“since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan w...”

“Shes kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, shes turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-for...”