Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.