“I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.”

“Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression an...”

“I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.”

“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”

“I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.”

“Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.”

“And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.”

“Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different w...”

“...It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredib...”

“I was so happy before. I find that happiness can always be recollected in tranquillity, Maam, said Melbourne. Victoria put her hands down and looked up at him, her pale blue eyes searching his fac...”

“I was so happy … before.’ ‘I find that happiness can always be recollected in tranquillity, Ma’am,’ said Melbourne. Victoria put her hands down and looked up at him, her pale blue eyes searching hi...”

“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.”

“Weight gains aren't failures they're learning curves.”

“I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..”