“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, c...”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.”

“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.”

“If I could undo everything," Tony said, "I would never have gone to that party. I was an idiot, Kelly, and it cost me the love of my life.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”