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"She spat..."

Several sentences later:

"'You spit at him!"'

Lol

"The Portuguese have a word with no equivalent in English, saudade, which indicates a longing, tinged with nostalgia, madness, and sickness, over something you have lost."

"...Heraclitus had made the profound observation that one could never step in the same river twice, because it wouldn't be the same river, and one wouldn't be the same person. The Lethe, then, equated forgetting with rebirth. The continuity of one's soul was tied extricably to the persistence of one's memories. When memories were gone, a new soul was born. The Lethe was forgetting was death was change."

"No rest for the wicked, though, and apparently no time to tend to the small pains and needs of the body either"

"Why had the phrase to break a heart ever became popular? It likened this onslaught of pain to the clean break of a china cup, when in reality it was much closer to being mauled."

"How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions."

at least this goes by faster than the Secret History does