Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

You are my angel and my damnation

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.