“Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions”
“We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”
“Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”
“The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.”
“The greatest enemy to fear is truth.”
“My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die.”