"But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things."

"The picture of the 'New Flower' is really one of those I did with much idea of having to express loveliness…"

"From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love."

"She understood on a deep, animal level that sex was like music or language. It could express anything. Love…"

"There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a…"

"Who do you love? If you love God, you should love people. If you don't love people, you don't love God. It'…"

"Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the w…"