Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
