The frozen flowers never go away. They hang around somewhere all the time. I think we need to talk about vases.Did you hear the sound of the white flower?

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards.

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action

A teacher asked me once, what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her a clown and she asked me if I was joking

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

I want to wake up with you every morning and fall asleep beside you each night.

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

Every book is a unique experience.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.