What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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She always wanted to believe in things.

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

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Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

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