Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.