Maya’s Reviews > Giovanni’s Room > Status Update

"I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet, as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me."

"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. N'est-ce pas?"

"He made me think of home - perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition."

"I ached abruptly, intolerably, with a longing to go home; not to that hotel, in one of the alleyways in Paris, but home, home across the ocean, to things and people I knew and understood; to those things, those places, those people which I would always, helplessly, and in whatever bitterness of spirit, love above all else."

"Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour for the lack of it."

"Love him. Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden. I wonder why."