The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.