“Old as I am, I long for youth — the everlasting youth of which the strength and savour fails not. I have lived long enough to know the sameness of this world — though there is much therein to please the heart and eye of a man — but with that roving restlessness that was born within me, I desire to s…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I have suffered in thine absence — the sufferings of the body that, being yet strong in spite of age, is reluctant to take leave of life. But it is past! I am as one numbed with everlasting frost — and now I feel no pain. And my mind is like a bird that poises for a while over past and present, ere…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I am but a sorry consoler, holding, as I do, that death is the chief blessing , and in no way to be regretted at any time. Moreover, when the body grows too weak to support the soul, 't is as well to escape from it with what speed we may.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com