“A life cut tragically short, but with more colour perhaps than one may find in her work.”

“Natasha and I said more than once that one may arrive at such a physical condition that it would be better to cut short one's own life or, more correctly, the too slow process of dying … But whatever may be the circumstances of my death I shall die with unshaken faith in the communist future. This faith in man and in his future gives me even now such power of resistance as cannot be given by any religion.”

“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”

“Light finds her treasure of colours
through the antagonism of clouds.”

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

“One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.”

“Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.”

“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”

“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”

“I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.”