When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

The urge to climb will never be explained. In olden days, perhaps it was a wish to reach the stars. Today, anyone so minded can buy a seat on a plane and feel himself master of the skies. Even so, he will not have rock under his feet, or air upon his face; nor will he know the silence that comes only on the hills.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.