“I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife”

“They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.”

“I might have been sad for them if they weren't so disgustingly happy.”

“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.”

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”