“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.”

“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing..”

“I do not own the words used to debase me in any way shape or form. I gladly take the shrapnel and shower it like confetti for all those who wish to dance or die beneath it.”

“And what appearance is there on Deirdre?" he said. "It is this," said Gelban, "although Naoise put out my eye, I would have wished to stay there looking at her with the other eye, but for the haste you put on me; for there is not in the world a woman is better of shape or of form than herself.”

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing...The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires,...shall duly flame again”