“How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe.”

“The knowledge of Evil brings you near to God.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”

“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”