in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)