“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”

“Becoming a rock does not ensure safety. …The blasting of windblown sands, the pummeling of waves, the corrosive secretions of mosses and lichens, and even the steady rhythm of a stream can, in time, reduce a seemingly indestructible boulder to a grain of sand.”

“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”

“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

“And what about the three-year-old on the beach, in the heather: / "What if I take away the water," sand, rock / "what if I take away the sand, the rock, / the ground, the air, what then, what?"”

“Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.”

“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.

There is, I think, a fear of love.

There is a fear of love.”

“Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.”