"I've been forgotten by our Good Lord."

"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often."

"I didn't like mundane life."

"Wit doesn't make girls pretty."

"It is a quiet truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."

"I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age."

"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."

"The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to."