There was always a degree of banality in every tragedy.

“Better that way,” she said out loud. “Less possibility of confusion and making a fool of yourself.”

What I mean is that I gave you beauty, Bruna. And beauty is the only eternity possible.”

There is a time for everything under the sun: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to cry and a time to laugh; a time to embrace and a time to be apart,

There was something very exciting about real danger. An exuberant reaffirmation of life.

She saw them together while she was alone, hopelessly strange even among the strange.

the socially marginalized do not choose to be marginalized but instead find themselves banished to the other side of the line of what is deemed normal.

What more could a sensible man aspire to than to be reasonably protected from pain?

What I do shows me what I am seeking.