The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality