I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.