He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

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.