“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

“This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.”

“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.”

“Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me—death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.”

“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”

“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.”

“Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.”

“Well-established democracies do not make war on each other.”

“It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much.”