I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.