“His love with Lucy bled from his heart as he slipped into a dark despair— a melancholy that only she could sever with her chaste voice and tender kisses. Now in an unreachable darkness, a blindness took hold. A blood lust that would drive him mad for five years hence.”
“He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.”
“Whatever happens between us; you will forever be aching for me just as a flower aches for her bee.”
“You want my business, none of you will touch her, look at her or even acknowledge her presence.”
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”