Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.