"A young boy sitting in an empty auditorium, his heart racing as if he were on stage." (p.76)
"Matterhorn, the jagged peak of white pushing into the solid blue sky, the green valley and the log cabins." (p.76)
"A boat on the water at night, it's lights dim in the distance, like a small red star in the black sky." (p.76)
" A child on a bicycle in the Kleine Schanze, smiling the smile if a lifetime." (p.77)
"Sails billowed like the wings of a giant white bird." (p.77)
"The blue shadows of trees in a full moon." (p.78)
"Red hair of a lover, wild, mischievous, promising." (p.79)
"The mountain tops all over the world are nestled with (such) houses, which from a distance look like a flock of fat birds squatting on long skinny legs." (p.29)
"A leaf on the ground in Autumn, red and gold and brown, delicate." (p.76)
"Dust on a windowsill." (p.76)
"In this world in which a human life spans but a single day, people heed time like cats straining to hear sounds in the attic." (p.109)
"A life is one snowfall." (p.110)
"Snow clings to the spruce beside the building." (p.135)
"A oval window, looking out on fields of hay." (p.77)
"A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow." (p.110)
