"The Beautiful Room Is Empty" Quotes

I had been so distressed by my own poverty that I hadn't realized I was also living among the poor.

I was too young to let myself believe in the impossible.

I was the only boy in the world who had no future.

I was beginning to think that life was a very difficult thing to do well.

I felt I was in a state of grace, something rare and precious.

I longed to be normal, to have friends and to be liked.

I was tired of being a pariah.

The past seemed to me a series of losses.

I was spending my life with a man who was not like me.

I could not forget my past, and I could not imagine my future.