“But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.”

“Annas conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, a...”

“There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.”

“Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought”

“Anna loved and didnt love sex. Anna needed and didnt need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.”

“It doesnt matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.”

“If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.”

“There is a correlation between the severity of a persons moods and a lack of self-knowledge.”

“If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.”

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”

“I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reck...”

“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”