A novel?" André laughed. "The novel's dead—don't waste your time. The novel takes a small—oh, infinitely small—cut-and-dried section of so-called rea… - Lisa Goldstein

We are all tourists in each others’ lives. We all have monuments and ruins, places of strange beauty and forbidden sites chained off and locked securely so that no visitors can get in. And none of us has the guidebook to anyone else, or even the list of most commonly used phrases. We just have to get along the best we can.

You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes courage to live.

They passed a closed police station. Someone had written on the wall, “It is forbidden to forbid.”