“Maybe. Because he’s got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.”

“Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.”

“One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.”

“Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.”

“They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe it turns me on, too," she said quietly. "In fact, I know it does, because loving you hurts. And yet, I still come back for more.”

“There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place”