In her face was the tense expression of an organism surviving in an alien element. - Djuna Barnes

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

RAGNA: All you do not take from the world the world takes from you, all the flowering plants you have denied yourself are full of you, your presence makes the wheat fields uneasy, because of you and likes of you the markets are querulous and mean and overfed. The joints of beef you have not eaten have eaten you. They are glutted with the mouths they have left empty.