“...his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..”

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”

“(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.”

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”