“Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.”

“Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.”

“Disease's mess with you from the outside, but syndromes mess with you from the inside.”

“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour…”

“It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

“If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”

“That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.”

“She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.”