That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.