“Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.”

“Nothing is more painful than to wander in the world without the one you love.”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”

“Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”

“The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.”