“It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.”

“In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.”

“That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.”

“In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of being that we behold, are they not expressions of my Beloved? For there is none save Him. He is smaller than the smallest, and greater than the greatest.”

“Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.”

“Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.”