“They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.”
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?”
“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”
“The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.”
“Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?”