“There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.”

“I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?”

“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man.”

“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.”

“I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.”

“A heartbeat without anything to supportA body that fears its own warmthYou who hates their own reflectionAre you unable to face forward anymore?”