Author of quotes: Elizabeth Straut

Time seemed to Angie as huge and round as the sky, and trying to understand its meaning was like trying to understand the meaning of music or God, or why the ocean is so deep. Angie has long understood that you should not even try to look for meaning in such things as many others are trying to do.

Awful, however, when nobody is allowed to say anything.

- I don't want to die alone, - he said.
Damn. But we're always alone. Alone born. Alone die. What's the difference?

In our world there are such men who, when they go with a woman, no different from dogs.

Anniversary is great. A brief moment for reflection.

Whatever the gap, with its roots in the distant years, no matter what happened between them, what started as harmless as a rash on the cheek of Ann, but going deeper and deeper and eventually severing son from Olivia, he's cured. It is, of course, will leave a scar, but one accumulates scars, and moving on...

Sometimes Olivia had to realize, how desperate tenacity to every person in the world strives to gain. For most it is a feeling of safety, security in the ocean of terror in which more and more becomes our life. People believe that love can give it to them, and maybe it is.

Olivia long enough taught in school to know: too much vulnerability can take the form of stupidity.

No matter how much you argued that you can't judge a book by its cover, Olivia has always believed that face says it all.

Do not be afraid of your thirst. If you're scared your thirst, you will be the same dupes as everyone else.

We deserve what we get.

Do not be so easy to go with the word "die", the sun. Somewhere people are actually dying right now, and besides a horrible death. They would be happy to be in your shoes: being rejected by the groom for them would not hurt a mosquito bite.

People like to think that young people is dragging our world to hell. But this is not true, do you agree? They are hopeful, they're all right and as it should be.

- You're starving.
The girl did not move, only said:
- Yeah.
- I'm also starving, ' said Olivia. The girl stared at her silently. - Yes, starving, ' said Olivia. Otherwise why do you think I eat every doughnut that catches my eye?!
- You are not starving, in disgust said Nina.
- Of course, starving. We are all starving.