"Conhece-te a ti mesmo"

“She was a free, unabateable animal…there was no law for her, nor any rule. She existed for herself alone.”

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky.

“I become mystical and feel an alliance with you which is eternal, not interrupted, or hurt by never meeting. If there is anything I could ever give you, I would give it, but perhaps the only thing to give is to be oneself with people.”

“That was all: a series of ordinary, unconscious life details. Not trivial even if it seemed that way. Tender feelings for those moments, my god. Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?”

“The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories.”