That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten.

Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.

Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

I have embraced the positive resolution certainly not to entertain any discouragement

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]