“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases…..”

“Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.”

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”

“Only a tender flower
Sent us to rear,
Only a life to love
While we are here,

Only a baby small,
Never at rest;
Small, but how dear to us
God knoweth best.”

“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

“The flower,’ said Bernard, ‘the red carnation that stood in the vase on the table of the restaurant when we dined together with Percival, is become a six-sided flower; made of six lives.”

“He was a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed.”

“There are many things that I want to tell you -- well, really, only one -- but that one is as large as the ocean -- as the ocean is deep and infinite, so is my love for you and it will be for all my life!”