That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.