We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.