"No—lover."
"Then love must be living poetry."
"That many-sidedness is my weakness."
"I don't want it otherwise."
"The success race has to be run in blinkers. One must see only the goal ahead. There must be no looking to right or left."
"If success means that, then success is bought too dearly.... Dear John, I don't want you otherwise than you are. I love you for your weakness and not your strength. That's the mother-love in a woman."
"I can do so little for you."
"So little? You've made this sick-room an enchanted castle for me! I dread the time when I shall have to leave it. But we won't speak of that—that's forbidden ground."
"We'll speak only of the world we've created for ourselves. It's a whole planet with only you and I for its sole inhabitants. The planet Earth is far away in space—just a cold white star amongst a wilderness of others."
"I used to think you cold and bloodless—that was at Arles and Nîmes."