Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

Enter freely and of your own free will!