I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

Terror made me cruel.