“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”

“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.”

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”

“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”

“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then...”

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.Theyre things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of ...”

“Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”