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"the wind blows some of them back on me."

"But if women are supposed to be led by men and there aren't any men to lead them, what happens then? What happens then?"

"Why," she said, "I'm talking about my life. I've got you to take care of and feed and torment and trick and love—l've got you to put up. with. From now on, I can have a wonderful time complaining about being a woman. But I won't be terrified that I'm not one."

"What kind of room do you think Giovanni should be living in" the room as a symbol of depression and lack of self worth

"He smiled, "Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home."

"He could not endure being very far from me for very long. I was the only person on God's cold, green earth who cared about him, who knew his speech and silence, knew his arms, and did not carry a knife. The burden of his salvation seemed to be on me and I could not endure it."

"It would help if i were able to feel guilty. But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt."

"For neither my father nor Hella was real at that moment. And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again—unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality."

"Giovanni smiled his humble, grateful smile and told me in as many ways as he could find how wonderful it was to have me there, how I stood, with my love and my ingenuity, between him and the dark."