"[in a letter] Of course, Randy, it is a ghastly and terrible tragedy, particularly to have happened to Drake. He live…"

"I didn't marry Drake out of pity, Parris...I never loved anyone else. Even in school I never had crushes on boys. I l…"

"Well, Mitchell, I don't know at all your approach to medicine. Perhaps you regard it as an opportunity to become one …"

"And in diagnosis, you must never underrate the value of subconscious observation. Instinct, if you want to call it th…"

"I only know that you have to judge people by what you find them to be and not by what other people say they are."

"He mustn't know, Anna....Don't cry, Anna, for me. It will be worse for him. My troubles are almost over and his are j…"

"[about the dying Madame von Eln] When she passes, how much passes with her! - a whole way of life, a way of gentlenes…"

"[referring to Drake] Funny thing, I sort of like that boy. Bold as brass, but he's the only young man in town beside …"

"The town they talk of in whispers."

"Something's gonna happen, Drake. Something bad, I don't know what. It's just a feeling I've had lately. Something I c…"