"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
"Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector."
"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."
"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."