“...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.”

“It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves ...”

“From my window I watched the full moona moon that reminded me of Brettbecome shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful, hour ...”

“On such a night, I thought, were ill and good,Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into oneAnd pressed against my heart.”

“One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. Theres always something just ahead.”

“I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morningraspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“I have a love/pain relationship with her. Love that caused more pain and pain that changed me.”

“Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do you could pu...”

“His gaze was like that of the moon, and had a dark side which he never showed to anybody.”