One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.