“The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.”

“I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.”

“The one thing I've learned about family skeletons is that they always have a way of finding the light of day and ending up at the neighborhood garage sale." Alora from The Sapphire Talisman”

“Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you. ”

“The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.”

“Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God”