“I have such faith in Linton's love that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn't wish to retaliate.”

“I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him.
And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.”

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”

“The little things, Emma. The gestures, the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him, even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.”

“I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.”

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.”

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

“And you know, I believed him.
What girl wouldn't?”

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman”

“I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.”