“Life was a bitch. Love also was a bitch.”

“I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.”

“I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.”

“Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.”

“...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.”

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”

“Oh dark woman With a shawl and ribsI could have served him betterWith my shanties.But men do love the shimmerAnd so his ghostIs hacked in half between usThe dark me and the dark you.”