“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.”

“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”

“Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?”

“You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath”

“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”