“Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.”

“I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.”

“Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed so I might as well make today my bitch.”

“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”

“Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.”

“I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.”

“There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile”

“You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.”