And then the days came when I was alone..

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still..

Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be differen….

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie..

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. Ther….

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies..

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books..

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now..

I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know..

I have arranged my little life..

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and fail….

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living..

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself;….

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is..

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold a….

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life..

There is always the other side, always..

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?.

But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because….

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought)..