A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.