“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
“Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.”
“She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process worked with a human heart.”
“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.”
“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”