“Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.”

“There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.”

“I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.”

“There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.”

“Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other.”

“The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”