He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?