“It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures t...”

“Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.”

“Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.”

“I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.”

“Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.”

“If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.”

“If you have a strong stomachread on.”

“At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.”

“He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.”

“A few shackles and bars and this place'd be forced to call itself a prison!”

“Jesse stirs again. This time his fingers twitch. As much as I want to see him open his eyes, I cant be here for that. Itll make leaving him too hard. I turn toward the doorway and Im outside in the...”

“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousand...”

“We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard ...”