Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words. - Iris Murdoch

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower...

I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it . . .

I crave for love, everybody does . . . and I've never had a bloody crumb of it — and I've given so much love to people — I can really love people, I can, I let them walk over me — but nobody's ever loved me.