“They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him”
“They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....”
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
“I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.”
“I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds.”
“I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back."({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}”