we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.