“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”

“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.”

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.”

“She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.”

“No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.”

“The lawyers have sat in council, the men with the keen long faces,
said, "This man is a fool," and others have said, "He blasphemeth;"
And the wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space amongst the bulks of actual things,
To a dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.”

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

“Not a single sentence could move her heart. Not a story, a novel or even a poem. Even if she really had a heart, she could not love.”

“In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.”