one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.