“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”

“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”

“A woman must not be violated even with the thought. A woman is the paradise to be seen that it is forbidden to touch without permission.”

“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.”

“You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen”

“Even here, merit will have its true reward…
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi, Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”

“I must at least tell somebody, even only God and myself, what I have seen and felt.”

“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”