Some of my favorite lines from the book Embers.. Enjoy! (:

Friendship is the most powerful bond in life and consequently the rarest …

 "Life becomes bearable only when one comes to terms with who one is, both in one’s own eyes and in the eyes of the world."

 "..life is speaking to us in mute signs, everything suddenly makes us alert, everything is a proof  and a symbol, all you need to do is understand
The world is mine. I have found the woman who in every word, every movement of her body, every leap of her mind calls forth a complete echo in me… And like everyone whom the gods spoil without reason, I feel a kind of anxiety buried at the heart of my happiness. It’s all too beautiful, too flawless, too complete. Such unbroken happiness always arouses fear."

 "What once made our hearts burn until we thought we would either die or kill someone … all that is less than the dust the wind blows across the graveyards
when we demand fidelity are we wishing for the other person’s happiness? … And if we dont love the person in a way that makes her happy, do we have the right to expect fidelity or any other."

"And because music’s power is inexpressible, it seems to carry a larger danger in that it has the power to arouse the deepest emotions in people who come together to listen to it and discover that it is their fate to belong to each other..."

"What do you think? Do you also believe that what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that suddenly invades us heart, soul and body and burns in us forever no matter what else happens in our lives.."

"But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language."

"It would be good to know wether such thing as friendship actually exists. I do not mean the opportunistic pleasure that two people experience in encountering each other when they share the same tasks or needs. None of that is friendship. Sometimes I almost believe it is the most powerful bond in life and consequently the rarest … That in the worst times two people will stand up for each other. Or perhaps buried down in every relationship between two people is some tiny spark of erotic attraction."