“Death is the only real elegance.”

“Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.”

“And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”

“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”

“It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.”

“I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.”

“I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”