Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.