There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent - Djuna Barnes

…in the end you’ll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on and eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible — it is a form of immortality

Destiny and history are untidy.