Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.

But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.