Book: Girl in translation

... What value give the Americans the sport in General is a revelation for me. We have praised those who does well, but for the local kids for good grades is not enough. They should have sports and music and have straight teeth.

- I play for myself, ' she replied. - Without a violin, I forget who I am.

If the image is in the abstract, it becomes an expression of what you want to say. As the word or symbol. Or a vase that can be filled with whatever you want.

How many sophisticated torture prepares us to love...

Everyone has flaws, but that does not entitle us to act unworthily.

I have a special talent - not acting, not music, not dancing or even to something as delicate. I could always learn. Can learn anything quickly and effortlessly. As if the school was a special mechanism, and I - ideal gear.

I wanted to believe that love is something real and permanent, as a talisman of good luck, which is always worn on the neck. Now I understand that it is more like a stream of smoke from incense sticks: it remains only a memory, barely visible trail of scent.