That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Maruman does not loll.

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.