To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!