"Well you know that I love to live with you, but you make me forget so very much. I forget to pray for the angels and then the angels forget to pray for us." - So Long Marianne

"'Then let me start again,' I cried, 'please let me start again, I want a face that's fair this time, I want a spirit that is calm.'" - Lover Lover Lover

"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by. You can spend the night beside her." - Suzanne

"And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate, who in these realms of love, who by something blunt, and who by avalanche, who by powder, who for his greed, who for his hunger." - Who By Fire

"If it be your will. If there is a choice. Let the rivers fill. Let the hills rejoice. Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell. If it be your will to make us well." - If It Be Your Will

"If it be your will that I speak no more and my voice be still as it was before. I will speak no more. I shall abide until. I am spoken for. If it be your will." - If It Be Your Will

"All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?" - Stories of the Street

"Well I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul; when I am not this hunchback that you see, I sleep beneath the golden hill. You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn, learn to serve me well." - Avalanche

"There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken Hallelujah." - Hallelujah

"We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky." - Stories of the Street

"I knew that it was wrong, I didn't have a doubt. I was dying to get back home and you were starting out. I said 'I best be moving on'. You said, 'we have all day'. You smiled at me like I was young. It took my breath away." - On the Level

"I tried to leave you, I don't deny. I closed the book on us, at least a hundred times. I'd wake up every morning by your side." - I Tried To Leave You

"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free." - Bird on the Wire

"Oh, you are really such a pretty one. I see you've gone and changed your name again. And just when I climbed this whole mountainside, to wash my eyelids in the rain!" - So Long Marianne

"And I can't forget, I can't forget, I can't forget but I don't remember who." - I Can't Forget

"And you know that she's half crazy, but that's why you want to be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China." - Suzanne

"It was deep into his fiery heart he took the dust of Joan of Arc, and then she clearly understood if he was fire, oh then she must be wood." - Joan of Arc

"But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow." - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

"Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone. Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon. Show me slowly what I only know the limits of. Dance me to the end of love." - Dance Me to the End of Love

"And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night: We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right," - Sisters of Mercy