The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
Families without songs are unhappy families.
She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.