“I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes ”

“Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.”

“No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageT...”

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”

“And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so ...”

“He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.”

“You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe how lucky I am to be with you and I hope yo...”

“You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.”

“But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol...”

“Light makes invisible things manifest.”

“Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.”

“On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.”