“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give ...”

“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

“I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes a...”

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

“I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more”

“I am here to tell youWe are all of us just as mighty as planetsand you too,We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spareBut you might have to sleep on the floor.”

“I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.”

“I am here to tell youWe are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too,We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare—But you might have to sleep on the floor.”

“In a way, I was safe writing”

“I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.”

“Safe and safeness Men, Women & Children 2014 - That's what's about this story!”