When it was built it was the most important line through the Alps. For [young] Switzerland, it was a kind of core project to get together as a nation.

Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.

We don't need the yellow jersey, ... We don't need to keep it in the Alps, we need to have it at the end.

I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the rush and whirl of everyday things, we so often live alongside one another without making any mutual contact. We had learned on the North Fae of the Eiger that men are good, and the earth on which we were born is good."(p.126)

We've been waiting for the bridge to be built over County Line Road.