I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Father said conflict develops the character

She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.