Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.