"Dance of the Happy Shades" Quotes

There is a limit to what we can know about ourselves, but the limit can be pushed outwards.

People's lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

The old man had a way of being absent when present, and present when absent, that made you feel both less alone and more alone than you really were.

But it is the memory that has the last word. And memory is inherently female.

They had been wrong, in thinking that you could destroy the past, obliterate it, cut it up into tiny shreds and scatter them abroad.

The past is not just the past, but a prism through which the subject filters her own changing self-image.

You've got to use your imagination, imagination is the key to everything.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I am a person who cannot manage alone, as if I were an animal who had lost its mate.

To love, and be loved, is the most important thing in life.