"As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure."

“It’s nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”

“Don’t let yourself be destroyed by a force that was placed in our hearts in order to make everything better.”

“Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life. Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been; it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.”

“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.”

“In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.”

“So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.”