“There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.”

“If {Death} comes for you? he said. Would you be so sanguine then? She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a won...”

“The soul often hangs in a balance of some sort. Tonight do I lie down in the high fields with Dirk Tanner or not? At the fair, do I buy ribbons or wine? For the new ferrys headboard, do I use camph...”

“I worry about you. Youre good with people, Ive seen it. You like them. But theres a limit for you. He opened his mouth to protest but she held up her hand to silence him. I know. You do care. But i...”

“I worry about you. You’re good with people, I’ve seen it. You like them. But there’s a limit for you.” He opened his mouth to protest but she held up her hand to silence him. “I know. You do care. ...”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process...”

“What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our inv...”

“Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.”

“A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.”