“Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”

“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”

“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”

“That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.”

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”

“Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.”

“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”

“Sometimes,” he said, “I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.”

“It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.”