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But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.

I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum

Why break the heart that never beat from love?

Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order ...

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

The castle was round and about them, widespread and as unchartable as a dark day.

If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
- Coloured Money

Oh how I hate people!

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor.

She stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun.

For what is more lovable than failure?

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

It is my cape of good hope, and if it isn't I will probably bite your nose off

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, 'Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork.

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.

In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.

- One Day When They Had Settled Down

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous.

Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?

It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

Mount and begone. The world awaits you.

To live at all is miracle enough.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

I do not understand your love,' he said.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held ... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

His voice is unmuffled - it is like a bell, clearly ringing in the night of our confusion; but the clarity is the clarity of imponderable depth ...

He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

Civilized people don't feel.

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

I saw a Puffin
In the Bay of Baffin
Sittin on Nuffin
And it was Laffin.

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.

Let them touch him. For every hair that's hurt I'll stop a heart.