How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

There was some justice in his pain

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.