"I verily believe that her not remembering..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.”

“a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.”

“"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."”

“I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.”

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

“How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.”

“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”

“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”