“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.”

“I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor”

“A successful story for me exist in a moral universe, not one where goodness always triumph, because that would be false but one with an inherent awareness of goodness”

“French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.”

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.”

“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”

“I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either.”

“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain”

“Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?”

“Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.”