“I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?”

“I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.”

“It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.”

“His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.”

“In the far reaches of the county, cottages were found with skeletons enlaced in the beds, the bones of the baby in the kettle.”

“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.The foam that floats in the poolsNow gathering, now vanishingNever lasts long. So it is with manand all his dwelling places on this earth.”