“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.”

“After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.”

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

“...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.”

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

“We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...”

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