No Place For You, My love

"Whatever people like to think, situations (if not scenes) were usually three-way--there was somebody else always. The one who didn't--couldn't--understand the two made the formidable third."

No Place for You, My Love, Eudora Welty

No Place For You, My love

"Like people in love, they had a supertition about themselves almost as soon as they came out on the floor, and dared not think the words 'happy' or 'unhappy', which might strike them, one or the other, like lightning."

-No place for you, my love. Eudora Welty

The Orchard Keeper, pg 246

"They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust. "

--Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, pg 246
The final paragraph of the novel.

Othello, III.III. 261-263

"Though her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'ld whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune."

--William Shakespeare, Othello, act 3, scene 3, line 261-263