In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.