She sat silent for a moment. The real world always lay out there waiting, ready to ambush you with something you could not control. The history you’v… - 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.

She felt that she had seen beneath the mask of the world, and she could not quite believe in that mask again.

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 reality and calls it art. Your life is art. Don't waste it trying to write a novel.