Christopher

“He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“Lois had gone out of my life (I should say that she had left my future—I could never eradicate her from my past, no matter how hard I tried)”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“But the Lorns stood in the worst possible relationship: they were known by name only. They were reputed to be “nice.”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace