For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

An unread book is just a block of paper.