“The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.”
“Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.”
“I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.”
“You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty”
“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”