“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”

“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”

“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.”

“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”

“I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.”

“Idleness breeds our better virtues.”