We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

The mountain violets break the rocks.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.