“This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.”

“I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind.”

“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.”

“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”

“She doesn’t want me to own her. (Dante)Well, the Simi doesn’t understand that. Owning’s not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)”

“He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul..”