Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?