“Your skin is so smooth like my love towards you.”

“Tengo ansia infinita de besarte la boca, de morderte los labios hasta hacerlos sangrar, de estrecharte en mis brazos con furores tan locos que más nunca en la vida me puedas olvidar.""I have an infinite desire to kiss your lips, to bite your lips until it makes them bleed, to hold you in my arms with such a crazed frenzy that you will never forget me for the rest of your life." ”

“Los libros cautivan porque le ahorran al lector el problema de vivir. Los libros se declaran por nosotros, recorren la noche por nosotros. Entran donde el lector no se atrevería a entrar, espían donde el lector cerraría los ojos. Sufren lo que el lector sería incapaz —porque la lectura lo ha embotado— de sufrir. Aunque seguramente ese lector, al momento de morir, morirá menos que quien ha sufrido en carne propia.”

“La derrota es mía. A veces me espanta arrastrar en esta carroza fúnebre a algún incauto que se deje seducir por mi pesimismo. Sería lo peor que le pudiera pasar a un derrotado: ser ejemplar.”

“If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks.”

“My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish you from head to toe. I wish to make love to you until you are too exhausted to do so much as stand without support. Until you call out my name in your dreams and reach for me in your sleep. Until you can think of no one and nothing beyond the touch of my hand, the caress of my lips.”

“I loved you: and, it may be, from my soulThe former love has never gone away,But let it not recall to you my dole;I wish not sadden you in any way.I loved you silently, without hope, fully,In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain;I loved you so tenderly and truly,As let you else be loved by any man. ”