“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ”
“Accepting the rule that others want us to play is fine, as long as we’re fine with it.”
“People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.”
“Everything is fine, everything is just fine. It's ordinary. The problem is I don't want ordinary I want...""Magic?""Yeah, you know what the problem is, we just aren't in love, neither one of us wants to admit it.”
“She studied my face.I rubbed my eyes. "I'm fine," I assured her.That was five months ago. I wasn't fine then and I'm not fine now. (Thwonk)”
“A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.”