"If you could just for a moment come out of yourself and see what I see...you wouldn't stop looking at yourself. But unfortunately you need a mirror … - Dorit Rabinyan

Although I was exhausted, it took a long time to fall asleep. Hilmi had dropped off long ago, but my mind hummed with the sounds of our time together, unready to let go of them yet. (chapter 13)

The lighthouse of marriage is only one of a host of glimmering lights.

The silence was very intense, like the hush that used to trouble her mind when she was the first to wake up on Saturday mornings. (p97)