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

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.