“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the ”

“For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.”

“Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is”

“The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Wont I? in pitiful indecision.”

“I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.”

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her ch...”