The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.