Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.