After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.