“Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”

“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”

“A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.”

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...”

“Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]”

“...(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...”

“The brain is always thinking, but who is it who is thinking?”