Lots of people would give anything to be in your place." "I'm not lots of people," Mary said. "I'm me. That's what I'll never forgive, that you did a… - Lisa Goldstein

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

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.

Claude sighed. “All right, you’re a poet,” he said. “I don’t understand why poets can’t make the effort to get along like everyone else.”
“Ah,” Robert said. “But we poets can’t understand why everyone else is making the effort.”