“Am I going crazy, or am I the only one who can hear the silence?”

“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.”

“What am I going to do?""Hopefully obsess in silence so I can get to sleep".Meghan and Grimalkin”

“Now, nature, as I am only too aware, has her enthusiasts, but on the whole, I am not to be counted among them. To put it bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.”

“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.”

“In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.”