“He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”

“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.”

“Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodF...”

“What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?”

“I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.”

“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”

“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.”

“When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by hea...”

“I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was...”