“Love is old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a canibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile, it is always hungry”

“Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.”

“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”

“A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees.”

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but may not said. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me”