“How stupid could she be to think a clean person would love her -- would risk death and decay and banishment for love!”

“I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.”

“And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.”

“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”

“Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.”

“After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.”