You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart