“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”

“She's not a bad girl because
She made me see, hmmm…
How love could be.
But she's a bad girl because (bad girl because)
She wants to be free, hmmmm… (bad girl because)
She wants to be free”

“And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.”

“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”