“It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one.”

“It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one.”

“Oh I don't know,' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey”

“Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about”