“- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.”
“For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.”
“It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe”
“If you let yourself be truly seen, then you can be truly loved.”
“If you truly love someone, your love sees past their humanness”
“Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.”