Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn ….

I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising disc….

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city st….

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths..

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were….

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal..

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers..

As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being he….

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or n….

I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me a….

It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would b….

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not jus….

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled….

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight..

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know..

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights..

In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved.

Philosophy has forgotten about children.

...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of wh….

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter t….