“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony”
“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.”
“What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.”
“He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.”
“The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.”