“"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.”
“Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria”
“I like the word 'affection' because it signifies something habitual, and we are soon to meet to try whether we have mind enough to keep our hearts warm.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.”
“He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.”