Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.

Words have the power to change us.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.