Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting…”

“That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it …”

“I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so …”

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorr…”