If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

“He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarni…”

“I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. …”

“I’m wishing very hard,” she whispered. “Are you, Lillian?”“Yes,” Lillian murmur…”

“I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From…”