“ ...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had… Paul Hoffman
“ ... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ho… Paul Hoffman
“ We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. Paul Hoffman
“ The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed… Paul Hoffman
“ Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason… Paul Hoffman
“ Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. Paul Hoffman
“ ...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship. Paul Hoffman
“ It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul. Paul Hoffman
“ I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool… Paul Hoffman
“ How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that… Paul Hoffman
