“Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.”
“Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
“Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace?Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.”
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”
“Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.”