“Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself”

“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”

“She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.”

“While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...”

“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”

“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”

“...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.”